Capital One reviews

The last five years have brought a few changes: First, a number of extremely competent senior leaders have left the company. In addition, career advancement at all levels has slowed significantly and, as at many large companies, become more based on executive favor than competencies or results. Depending on your role and your management chain, you can have either a favorable work life balance or find yourself working I-Banker hours but without any commiserate recompense. Promotions lately tend to be based more and more on political positioning and executive favor; as a result senior and middle management tend to lack fundamental management skills, leading to low morale and turnover in middle and junior buckets. If you're ready to play the game you can do well, but don't expect much career mileage out of the quality or quantity of your work.

- Very frequent reorgs (every 2-3 years), as a result people get displaced, but company takes good care of them - Promotion cycle is slow - even with stellar performance, the "who you know" matters for promotions - not a merit based culture - Low employee morale due to recent cuts - Options for international mobility are limited as the company is located in the US/UK. - Raises are poor (1-3%), but bonus are good (remember there is a higher tax on bonuses)