Capital One Employee’s: How will they ever make the McLean towers safe to return to?

[Anonymous]

agree with the favoritism part. There is a lot of sexual harassment from upper management and no one is there to stop that. HR is useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This place is golden handcuffs at the expense of your career. There are a lot of random firings but the good news is that only 20% of the people do 80% of the work.

How's that a golden handcuff? 7.5% of 401K match is not too fancy. I understand the other perks are good but that is not considered golden handcuffs in terms of job security.

[Anonymous]

A lot of people at Capone has 2nd jobs because there is not much to do.

I am surprised they are not interested in cutting expenses being a public company. Culture is good but people's work ethics are horrible.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of a random firing at Capone unless there is a misconduct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved Capital one.

The people were nice. Many were very smart.
Got paid $300K a year and literally worked from home 4 days a week.
Took probably 6 to 8 weeks vacation a year. Christmas and New Years was basically a guaranteed month off.
7.5% 401K match, plus more deferred compensation and stock
Solid healthcare plans
Nice food on site and gym
Expense accounts to eat whatever and whenever I wanted
Low stress job
The lights literally shut off at 6pm. Leaving for home at 3pm is normal.
I made it to the gym every day, went to WF, bought that nights dinner, etc. It’s practically like just having a pension and occasionally doing some work when it seems interesting.

The only real downside was it wasn’t a meritocracy: it was 100% promotion based on favoritism. I wasn’t “in” so I couldn’t move up and decided to leave, but it was such a great job. I’d go back in a heartbeat.

Why did you leave?

[Anonymous]

Who are these people who are working 20 hours a week at Capital One? My spouse is an attorney there and has been working their ass off from Day 1 (weekdays, not weekends, thankfully). It is far busier than their last job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved Capital one.

The people were nice. Many were very smart.
Got paid $300K a year and literally worked from home 4 days a week.
Took probably 6 to 8 weeks vacation a year. Christmas and New Years was basically a guaranteed month off.
7.5% 401K match, plus more deferred compensation and stock
Solid healthcare plans
Nice food on site and gym
Expense accounts to eat whatever and whenever I wanted
Low stress job
The lights literally shut off at 6pm. Leaving for home at 3pm is normal.
I made it to the gym every day, went to WF, bought that nights dinner, etc. It’s practically like just having a pension and occasionally doing some work when it seems interesting.

The only real downside was it wasn’t a meritocracy: it was 100% promotion based on favoritism. I wasn’t “in” so I couldn’t move up and decided to leave, but it was such a great job. I’d go back in a heartbeat.

Why did you leave?

Sorry, missed the last bit about promotions.

DH works there. A transplant from Chevy Chase. He absolutely loves it, but works a lot harder than a lot of people on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Yeah that wasn’t at all my DHs experience either. It was way too much stress for the money. He’s been much happier and less stressed since taking a pay cut to leave.

[Anonymous]

Tons of favoritism. Poor management.

Pay is very low for same job in IT at other companies.

[Anonymous]

Stress/demand is pretty much same at senior management level but compensation is not at par. In-house lawyers anywhere are going to be a workhorse.

90+% positions at CapOne are pretty chill and people could usually get by doing 15-20 worth or work. Contractor culture is pretty horrible. I have seen most of the contractor employees having 2 jobs and Capone barely requires any attention. IN IT and financial community, CapOne is the place to avoid. No good experience, tons of favoritism and politics - not worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are these people who are working 20 hours a week at Capital One? My spouse is an attorney there and has been working their ass off from Day 1 (weekdays, not weekends, thankfully). It is far busier than their last job.

Lawyers work more anywhere so attention to details are required. Except a few of the key positions, work culture at Capone doesn't exist. Employees charge a lot on company's credit/expense card with no questions. You hardly have to show up at work to get a paycheck. Lots of their processes are still running on the old system and need tons of people to handle the process/migration side of the work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stress/demand is pretty much same at senior management level but compensation is not at par. In-house lawyers anywhere are going to be a workhorse.

90+% positions at CapOne are pretty chill and people could usually get by doing 15-20 worth or work. Contractor culture is pretty horrible. I have seen most of the contractor employees having 2 jobs and Capone barely requires any attention. IN IT and financial community, CapOne is the place to avoid. No good experience, tons of favoritism and politics - not worth it.

So if someone wants to working in financial services/banking/fintech in this area, where do you suggest they work? I thought Capital One was the place to be

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stress/demand is pretty much same at senior management level but compensation is not at par. In-house lawyers anywhere are going to be a workhorse.

90+% positions at CapOne are pretty chill and people could usually get by doing 15-20 worth or work. Contractor culture is pretty horrible. I have seen most of the contractor employees having 2 jobs and Capone barely requires any attention. IN IT and financial community, CapOne is the place to avoid. No good experience, tons of favoritism and politics - not worth it.

So if someone wants to working in financial services/banking/fintech in this area, where do you suggest they work? I thought Capital One was the place to be

You want to work there if you expect no professional growth and like being stuck at the same job(no promotion) for a few years at a time. What areas of IT are you looking for?

[Anonymous]

I'm not an IT person. I'm a NP. I have a background in Fraud, Risk and Compliance.

[Anonymous]

Lol none of what the negative is what I’ve experienced and this is coming from a VP+ level

All VP+ I know are always in meetings back to back from 8am - 6am
There’s constantly some type of weekly meet going on so I never see down time
Unless, someone cancels a meet.

Anyway, for my org. we don’t plan to go back till next year.
I’d like to receive the approval to WFH till next year might ask for that next week so I can stop thinking when will this be normal.

Favoritism? Idk I haven’t really experienced that but yes it’s heavy on networking and being nice to one another because ya never know.

The question was what will change going back? I’m sure they’ll have cubicle like settings before we go back and I don’t expect to see our offices the same ever again.


Never though I’d say this but I miss my little desk