All the corporate culture of Amazon, with half the pay - Senior Associate Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Aug 17, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Offices are nice - Tech stack is very modern - I like my coworkers when they aren’t trying to stab me in the back

Cons

Rich is hell bent on making Capital One the new Amazon without realizing that Amazon’s culture goes completely against Capital One’s stated culture. 90% of new executives are Amazon rejects (literally Amazon underperformers) who don’t have to RTO and bring their culture with them. Long hours and backstabbing is the norm now. I refuse to collaborate with engineers on my level unless I can clearly demonstrate I’m better them. This is not how tech companies should behave. This performance review cycle has been inhumane and humiliating. Folks have known for two months now if they’ve been promoted, but several orgs have been keeping their lips closed about actual firing of underperformers. I have at least two people in my org that have been told their fine, but now being told they will likely receive a PIP. But they STILL don’t know officially. My manager has personally told me I cannot leave him anymore negative feedback because it looks bad on him. How is that normal? How is that going to help anyone? If Capital One cared about their bottom line, an employee saying they’ll only accept positive feedback is emblematic of a serious problem. I am tired of working for a company that tells me to live the values, while the company is taking a lot of action to actively undermine them.

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Cons

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