Hostile to minorities - Principal Research Associate Capital One Employee Review

Under the guise of "calibration against your peers," individuals can be pushed out without being given a chance to prove themselves, as was my case after just 4 months at the company. The same experience happened to two members of my team who were African American and had been at the company for less than a year. As a gay man of color, I have to wonder if "poor job fit" was simply an excuse to get rid of someone who was physically different from the rest of the department. Company is large and hard to navigate. You have to continuously re-do your work because you need to incorporate feedback from 3 layers of bureaucracy. Trips down to the Richmond office are exhausting. Inconsistencies with policies about remote work and whether vacation time is actively tracked or not (varies manager to manager). This is place fixated on doing things "The Capital One way," with no room for interpretation, even if someone comes in from a different industry. Managers are fastidious about PowerPoint decks fitting a rigid format in everything from style to content.