Capital One reviews

Huge popularity contest in Tech Recruitment at Capital One. Beyond Principal Associate, not a single thing they sell you in the interview is true about growth or support, there is no upward momentum - immediately a glass ceiling unless you are a home grown HR rotational not a professional recruiter with actual ideas. This is likely the single most political company of truly unqualified managers I have ever worked for. I have been here just over 3 years and have had 7 different bosses because of inconsistent reorgs - you are a placeholder they toss around and throw reqs at. Avoid this company for corporate recrutiment. You are expendable, you will feel put down and alone in your career here, management won't support you unless you fit the mold of popularity they see fit, and promotion (unless out of tech recruiting) is a pipe dream. Also so much fake positiviti (like the grouping) it's awful.

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.