Capital One reviews

In hindsight, I suppose the issues I encountered were similar to those that I read about before joining the company: get on the wrong side of the wrong person/people and you may find yourself without a job. While I admit to having fumbled some deadlines on projects early in my stint with C1, I was put on a PIP & made very sincere effort to improve my performance. Before being fired, my manager told me he had "seen my improvements," and that I wouldn't have been put on a PIP if I had performed so well earlier in the year. It made me feel ill/uneasy hearing my manager say "you're performing at 100%, but when you're on a PIP, we expect 150%... 200%." At that point, I knew there was no pleasing my manager - I had gotten on the bad side of him, and he didn't want me around. Ultimately, if I had to retry working at C1, I would've tried to impress everyone immediately & do everything to be seen as a hungry go-getter in search of approval/accolades, rather than being a quiet engineer who kept to himself, trying to acclimate to the job/tech-stack in the background. There's no saving yourself once you've been singled out. This was my first time in such a cut-throat corporate environment, and I didn't get hip to the culture until it was too late. My stress levels were very high throughout my tenure at C1, and I don't miss it.

In the past few years, the culture in this company has shifted DRAMATICALLY to the negative. I was a proud employee who would regularly tell people I wanted to retire here. Now I have zero faith in leadership and feel that I must protect myself from being screwed over constantly. Hands down the performance management scheme is the worst thing about this company. It’s pure psychological torture. And it’s chasing people away from the company in droves if they happen to have any integrity and don’t want to destroy people’s careers and affect their salary in the name of “distribution”. Nothing makes any logical sense. And they do not listen to feedback ever. They push the All Associate Survey but they just ignore bad numbers. With RTO, they ignore data and just say “a lot of people have told us they’re happy to be back in the office!” Who?? Everything is micromanaged to excess and every decision is made and managed about 10 levels above where it needs to be. Most people have barely enough authority to decide what they’re going to eat for lunch that day. Every choice is delivered from on high. They regularly make final decisions and then ask for feedback, when it’s too late to change anything. I am truly upset about the direction I feel this company is going. I feel like I’ve stayed out of pure nostalgic naïveté, hoping it returns to what it once was. But it seems the company that I loved and supported is dead.