SHAME ON YOU CAPITAL ONE! - Project Manager Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Dec 4, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

you can ask for ridiculous amount of salary, recommendation is negotiate for 10-20% higher than the offer. because people are quitting left right and center due some bad apples, the company is desperate for new hires. Don’t forget to ask for that signing bonus!

Cons

too much bullying... some people are egoistic and power hungry, where they purposely sabotage newer staffs by not including them in meetings, giving them the silent treatment, treating them like they don’t exist, not providing them with project updates, and giving them misleading information. And there isn’t only one or two of them, it is a gang of them like that. people are leaving or fired… the company does a good job at hiring good people but then don’t equip them to be successful. new people get discouraged quite quickly because a lot of people go out of their way to make them life miserable. feb is bonus payout time and is when a chunk of the company leaves. when managers don’t like their direct reports they would have HR investigate them and get them fired. it is hard not to be underperforming when the odds is against you so people get fired all the time. another way is reorg-ing them out. weak leadership the slt continues to try to build morale but usually ends up a bunch of people quiet in a room. you can fool the newbies but can fool everyone. turning a blind eye on the bullying issues cause of pressure to drive results. unsustainable approach.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

I have been a part of Capital One for more than 20 years, most of my career. It was an exciting growth culture in the early years. Our team culture was very strong. People looked out for each other and worked toward a collective good. Around 2019 a shift began in leadership. Politics became more important and forced distribution, stack ranking, and performance management targets became more prevalent. When the pandemic hit, it broke the strong in person culture of this company. Many left for the lure of FAANG and other companies offering remote work for promotion and higher pay. It was a chance to jump the line and come back later. In the meantime COF hired people who tired of the relentless pace of Amazon, Google, and other tech companies. We also hired in big bank culture of JPM Chase and Goldman. This has resulted in a toxic, political, cutthroat culture with constant reorgs. I’m planning to leave this organization in the next 12 months. It is sad what it has become. I know tenured leaders, great people who look out for others and have helped me succeed over the years, who are miserable here. DFS colleagues from the acquisition are leaving in droves.

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