Capital One reviews

There is a high level of change: I had 5 managers in the last 12 months. That's higher than average, but everyone seems to change managers at least once a year if not twice; either because the manager gets moved to a different team or because you do. My projects tended to get changed frequently as well: partway through a project, leadership would change the objective and ask us to focus on a different goal, abruptly stopping a 6- or 12-month project halfway through without us delivering anything. That happened enough to my projects and other product managers' to become a pattern. This all combines to a frustrating level of change when you have really interesting projects and would love to get them out to customers. My advice would be to start coding an MVP as quickly as possible so you can at least deliver something before priorities shift.

1. Work pressure. No work life balance. Managers tell you that you should not work after 5 PM. But on the other hand, you have unrealistic deadlines. Agile is out of picture. Work is taken in chunks and divided into sprints. PO says “we have to deliver this in this many sprints”. In office hours, we have tons of meetings and no room for actual work. This leaves no choice and you end up working from home after office hours. 2. Office politics - corruption, bias, favoritism at its peak. 3. Incompetent managers and peers who are waiting for you to finish your work and then steal it and showcase as their own piece of art. After work is done, manager will say you didn’t do anything great. You are hired to do this. Everyone else is doing the same. What are you doing extra?? 4. No freedom to be yourself - just pretend you like Capital one in front of your manager. 5. Team work vs individual performance management - all year, mobbing is enforced and people who want to take up something on their own are blamed in the retrospectives. At the end of year, no one knows who did the actual work. Only manager’s favorite guy gets the promotion. The least favorite might even end up losing their job. 6. Idiotic meetings - two hours of useless meetings to come up with some points on blah blah which is not helpful in any actual work.