Dishonest Management and lots of lies and betrayals - Principal Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
27 Dec 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A few great Co-Workers (others just stab you in the back) Some great technologies you can learn for a short-term

Cons

1. Lots of Stress 2. No work/life balance 3. You should be your manager's pet!!! 4. Lots of talk about company's culture but nothing in fact, what you hear is not true and what management ask you to do you should NOT do (such as be vocal, do the right thing, speak up and etc...) 5. Lots of betrayals, in fact, Capital One encourages this kind of behavior 6. Performance reviews are done based on your commit's amount! (lots of experienced people, are overusing this by creating a huge amount of fake commits and contributions) 7. Support for other OS's such as Linux or windows is a lie, only OSX is supported for development 8. Huge dependency on US team, most of the time you can't even contribute, change or deploy codes without US's approvals 9. Lots of delays in review processes from the US side 10. Management has their own favorite people in teams and they lesson only to them while they are talking about the flat team structure 11. There is a huge difference between Senior and Principal Rule and Capital One’s HR team can trick you with it - don't fall into this, renegotiate your salary if they change your title just before your start date, and expect that leads will expect a lot more from you when you are a "Principal" (And don’t expect that someone will explain this to you on the first day) 12. Lots of micromanagement - they count your breaks and they ask you to take fewer breaks - but at the same time, they expect you to be on call 24/7! 13. Canada's Software studio tend to follow the US almost everywhere, lots of in-house frameworks(built in the US) on top of famous frameworks which prevent you from gaining some fundamental knowledge

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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

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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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