Capital One reviews

You are constantly competing against your coworkers every 6 months. That's not a healthy environment to work in. The same performance might get you a strong review one year, and fired the next. The caveat is that you don't know how well you're performing until you're compared to moving targets.

Review and promotion process is widely agreed to be terrible. Management has pre-determined performance buckets to place employees in. In situations where many employees are doing well, it forces management to rank employees lower to meet required quotas. Worse, the review process is conducted by all management directly above you. This leads to a competitive atmosphere where there is excessive focus is on appeasing managers across all teams rather than helping your coworkers. Mostly, it relies on your direct manager to adequately represent your accomplishments. In general, success is too strongly weighted on workplace politics as a popularity contest.