Culture has fallen off a cliff - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
15 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There WERE several pros to working at capital one: - good work life balance - strong family culture - modern technology - investment in associates - focus on using the latest and greatest tech - reasonably competitive salary for low stress

Cons

All of the above has been eroded except for maybe the high WLB. There is still not much to do, as a lot of leaderships focus is on using a chainsaw to cut a sandwich. Theres a lot of talk about generative AI and using LLM's, but the amount of engineering work is nonexistent. Additionally, most of the time is spent on compliance and forcing everything to fit a standard but bad structure. We are solving the wrong problem but very efficiently. I have always complained about the poor practices at capital one but sucked it up for the chill WLB, but recently after 4 years I got PIP'd for no good reason! Their bizarre performance management practices are suddenly throwing random people into a PIP and firing them! So now its just a bad engineering culture with none of the coasting benefits! AVOID

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

Never heard more nonsensical topics during meetings; people sharing their sexual preferences, flaunting overly dramatic personal lifestyle decisions, diversity to the point of failure, etc. Hearing the term "white guilt" in a professional setting was, well, pretty unprofessional. Stack ranking for performance reviews is a mess. Someone has to have an "F" regardless of their performance because that is what their line of business is allotted. Be prepared to be held responsible for actions any Sr Leadership would just sweep under the rug under their own circumstances. If a manager doesn't like you, regardless of your productivity, you're toast unless you're able to find another LoB to support. HR / AR are just a check in the box and will most likely point you from one to the other and back again without resolving any issues. You'll find yourself curious as to what leadership does as they continue to scrape managerial responsibilities from their plate, to yours. Last but certainly not least; you may find yourself working hard on a project; nights and weekends, just in case that work life balance is feeling a little too perfect. Fret not, someone will surely assist in taking credit for the hard work you've put in. I'm sure none of these things will happen to you, though. Best of luck!

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