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Appearance of doing work means more than actually doing work

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Capital One for 2 years
August 7, 2023
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

It heavily depends on your team, but I think the work is very interesting. If you're in good graces, the company is pretty generous in paying for an extra monitor for your home office, headphones for Zoom meetings, and various other things that make your work easier. The pay and benefits are pretty good for a non-FAANG company.

Cons

2-3 days RTO.

And with all of the ex-Amazon senior leaders hired recently, I don't see the hybrid work arrangement lasting much longer.

Performance management is stack ranking (or the vitality curve), and it's a 2+ month long Kafkaesque nightmare, 2x a year. Like this review title says, playing politics and making other managers aware of your work is more important than actually doing the work.

On the tech side, the internal CI/CD pipeline software product is buggy and frequently fails your builds for no reason. The streaming data platform is a rigid and difficult mess to work with.

Advice to Management

Kick the ex-Amazon leadership to the curb. Seriously, their ex-leadership habitually ruins any company culture they touch. Get rid of the stack ranking that causes everyone to view their colleagues as competitors rather than collaborators.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
2.0
Culture and Values
1.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
1.0
Career Opportunities
1.0
Compensation and Benefits
3.0
Senior Management
1.0

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