Capital One reviews

Knowing what I know now, I would have never joined Capital One. Capital One's culture has taken a turn for the worse. Cutthroat performance management cycles has made the company a political nightmare, with each performance cycle seemingly getting worse it's apparent if you don't have the support of your manager, you'll find yourself out of luck at some point or another. Working here was once enjoyable and felt like everyone was working towards a common goal but now, politics and headcount requirements have turned joining this company into one of the biggest regrets I've ever made. High favoritism is placed on the college grads who enter the Capital One rotational program fresh and unexperienced and if you join the company professionally, you'll find your onboarding nonexistent, your expectations unreasonable high, and your salary quickly being bypassed by new hires who have little value to immediately contribute. It's a frustrating space and I've watched many good friends and employees enter the rotating door, either PIP'd or pushed out and several steps behind in their career because of it.

Everyone lives in fear of the bi-annual ratings. They mainly want new grads (or TDPs) that they can 'brainwash' into their way or working. A huge red flag is that it's very difficult for experienced hires to succeed there. Outside experience should be considered and embraced as diversity. It was apparent that the codebases were engineered by people with very limited experience; sloppy, poorly written, and lacking in clarity. A fairly simple questionnaire application for vehicle loan refinancing is being broken into 10+ micro front-ends. Having diverged from one another, each is largely different and a challenge to maintain. Agile practice was vastly sub-par; every work item was assigned a 1 or 2 point estimate when they took a full sprint to complete even for experienced devs. No one respected their work and thought about it beforehand. Refinement sessions were merely a formality. Poor team velocity; consistently averaged far less than 50% points delivered vs promised. Culture is more focused on output as opposed to quality. Everyone believes they are walking on water. Suggestions were met with, "well what are you going to do about it" from my manager. I'm sorry, but I couldn't change the entire group's culture of poor practices. Code reviews were a joke; everything 'LGTM'. RTO alienated remote workers. There's also a lack of effective on-boarding. They spend a week telling you about the architecture of the company's technology systems, but none of that really matters for the developer's day-to-day. No overview of the business of refi was given.