Good work life balance with brutal stack ranking - Director of Security Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Jan 17, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The work is pretty easy, and they are respectful and caring about work / life balance. The pay is great and the people are nice.

Cons

They've been doing stealth layoffs for 2 years now through their performance management system. 10% of my team has been required to be put on a PIP every year, no matter how great they perform. I see the environment turning more cutthroat the longer this goes on.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Cafeteria, coffee machines, and free food

Cons

no career In my experience, the work was not very meaningful and often felt buried under unnecessary red tape. A lot of things sounded exciting from the outside, but in practice many projects felt surface-level and did not seem to become real production work. Feedback and expectations could also feel vague and shifting, with words like “visibility” and “influence” used without clear guidance. I also felt that career growth and opportunity were not handled evenly, and once concerns were raised, the situation became more stressful rather than more constructive. Hiring and promotion patterns did not always feel transparent, which made the environment feel less fair over time. Overall, I left feeling disappointed by how much the company talks about values compared with how unsupported an employee can feel in practice.

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