Capital One reviews

It's been said a thousand times, the performance review here is terrible. It encourages you to not help your teammates because their success is necessarily your loss, and their loss is your gain. I know people try to ignore that aspect, but when it gets close to that review period there is a distinct increase in wait time to get PR reviews and large decrease in help from teammates. It's a terrible incentive structure and absolutely hurts team morale and cooperation; plus it destroys any semblence of the work-life balance Capital One professes to have. You need to be better. Your managers will tell you to get off at 5 but everyone knows that at the end of the day, you work as much as it takes to do better than your teammates. It's a dog-eat-dog culture and nobody likes it. As an asside don't plan on working your way up here, getting promotions is a real bear of a task and your work-life balance is going to get so much worse in order to get there.

Stack ranking at its absolute worst. The performance system is tweaked adhoc (grading criteria, rate cutoff dates, consequences of landing below, bell curve percentages etc.) even retroactively, to cut people instead of publicly announcing layoffs. This has fostered a toxic environment where associates fight over the pieces that subjectively matter the most during calibration time instead of focusing on proper development practices. This is a very stressful environment to work at and can't, in good faith, recommend it for the sake of the employee's mental health and job stability.