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Talknology, and definitely not a technology company

Lead Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Capital One for 4 years
December 7, 2018
McLean, Virginia
1.0
Doesn't RecommendApproves of CEO
Pros

Base Pay & Benefits, Resources at your disposal, like Mac, AWS, and exposure to every enterprise software you can imagine as a techie.

Cons

I've worked in technology companies all my life before joining C1 and trust me, there's not a single trait in this company to qualify remotely as tech company.

  • So called, distinguished engineers who hardly codes
  • Too much politics with way too many CBS walking around thriving on Here-say technique. Lies and un-ethical behavior during appraisal/calibrations
  • Awesome vision from top management but missed opportunity because of too many C grade players in middle management who believes in cronies culture
Advice to Management

Fix your middle management lies during calibrations by bringing measurable objectivity in goals before you become yet another case study in academia of failure of inner-sourcing.

Learn from real tech companies and hire who has an ability to solve your own application problems. For example, Netflix, Zul, Ribbon, Eureka, Symbian, and tons of OSS are required for them to solve their application issues. You are just a user of these and have not produced a single solid OSS. This is a big sign if C1 is a tech company. It's a company of followers, full of dream sellers with zero ability to produce quality software.

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