Great Pay, Toxic Culture
Great Pay, Toxic Culture
The tech stack is great for a credit card company. Benefits are very good. There is a good work/life balance. Total compensation is really good, depending on the level, and includes a generous bonus and LTI.
Outdated performance management processes create a horribly toxic culture. People in people manager roles without training or experience add to the toxic culture. Performance management is a stacked ranking/forced distribution system where a certain percentage are rated "below" which can impact your compensation up to no bonus at all. Furthermore, the process is full of bias and is a popularity contest. Really, really think twice before applying for roles at this company.
The All Associate Survey every year recommends management get rid of the stacked ranking system. That clearly has never happened.
Please review the feedback from your associates and make some changes.
Oh, and STOP calling yourself a Tech Company. You aren't.
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Director of Technology
Phone screen, followed by a very outdated and poorly constructed online math test. A couple of rounds of phone interviews were followed by a power day that included hands-on problem-solving.
Director of Technology
I hope the diversity and inclusion leader sees this because I was told I couldn’t have interviewed any better and wasn’t selected simply because I was an external candidate not already embedded in culture, while an internal candidate was in the mix.
SWE Intern
Normal powerday interview. It was pretty easy. Normal OOP technical with a banking question. The case interview was a little harder. Behavioral was normal. Focus on OOP concepts. All interviewers were really nice and helpful.
Director of Technology
United StatesJuly 27, 2022Phone screen, followed by a very outdated and poorly constructed online math test. A couple of rounds of phone interviews were followed by a power day that included hands-on problem-solving.
Director of Technology
Richmond, Virginia, United StatesDecember 1, 2018I hope the diversity and inclusion leader sees this because I was told I couldn’t have interviewed any better and wasn’t selected simply because I was an external candidate not already embedded in culture, while an internal candidate was in the mix.
SWE Intern
McLean, Virginia, United StatesNovember 21, 2025Normal powerday interview. It was pretty easy. Normal OOP technical with a banking question. The case interview was a little harder. Behavioral was normal. Focus on OOP concepts. All interviewers were really nice and helpful.
