Pros
Client exposure, many smart colleagues in the DC office.
Cons
I don’t even know where to start…First, the CEO is a chronic liar and loves to intimidate people with passive-aggressive emails. Second, management is dishonest, highly incompetent, and incapable to retain staff. HR has repeatedly ignored serious matters coming from anybody outside of the management team. It is very bad for a business to operare this way. The HR department has failed in several instances since its establishment. The lack of competence and reluctancy to help employees are clearly reflected in the number of resignations over the last year. It seems to me that serious instances of bullying took place and that no action was taken because the people reported generate revenue. This is unacceptable, especially in such a ‘collegial’ environment. Management should stop professing ‘collegiality’ as it clearly does not uphold this culture. At times it felt like a Herbal Life- kinda scheme, where only people at the top without real qualifications nor skills make decent money and are heard. Everyone else is a slave and can be promoted and paid only at the discretion of his highness the CEO. It also occurred to me that some people became a problem because they were making too much money and the CEO was not happy to pay them based on the compensation structure he designed together with the firm’s sales leadership. As a result, they had to let people go… The UK leadership would prevent any initiative leading to revenue flowing to DC. This is crazy! Perhaps the CEO can’t be bothered to look for more commercial leadership in London. This clearly doesn’t serve him. Capstone is far from being a meritocratic workplace. Only getting in good with the CEO and playing politics well might lead to being promoted (which is unlikely to trigger a meaningful salary increase).
