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Unproductive Work Environment

Principal Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Capital One for 1 year
October 12, 2019
Richmond, Virginia
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

• Cool campus (Richmond) • Reasonable pay

Cons

You rarely get any work done due to corporate proxy.

Excessive security and rehydrations in test environments; testing simple things takes days.

Unstable corporate tools that are enforced on dev teams.

Too much focus on the use of particular tools rather than creating business value.

Useless meetings.

Performance management.

Excessive employee rotation and reorgs. I have seen tens of people leaving and replaced with new ones in just 6 months, including managers and directors. Everything is unstable in the company.

Advice to Management

Focus on keeping your engineers engaged and happy.

Make developer-friendly test environments. Nobody is going to hack a test environment.

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