What's it like at Capital One?
Recruiter from C1 hit me up, wondering how people there like it. I'm an L4 at Uber and I'm open to looking outside. They seem to have cool projects (Alexa, Eno, and the cafes). What's the culture like and how's the SF locations? Is the work as interesting as it seems on the outside? Obligatory: 260k TC, 3 YOE.
I am on my way out of Capital One actually. Some reasons why: 1. Company has no respect for SF office. the CEO refuses to visit us and there is virtually no leadership in this building. The VP in charge of SF was fired a few months ago and then they tried to tell us that she had planned to leave for several months... Yeah right then why did they have a meeting last minute? 2. Constant restructuring, in the last 12 months I think two large orgs were disbanded and most of the employees laid off. Halo, Small Business, all gone and their projects all got taken to East Coast. 3. Low quality code base, really bad coders who just cargo cult and make the problems worst because they don't care to be responsible 4. You're an Eng right? Uber is monopoly money but C1 doesn't do equity grants until you're a Director so your TC will be even lower than it is now 5. I heard Uber got rid of stack ranking, well... bad news. CEO loves it and thinks it's the best system. Many of my good friends and quality talent leave because of it. 6. Performance management is about marketing yourself as a 1000x rockstar developers instead of any quality output, so forget about anything but politics. Seeing you are from Uber... It might be a good fit? 7. Last week someone in my org sent a farewell email calling out the CEO for never visiting... and our VP who is also never visiting decided to fire him and have security remove him from the building for it. My advice... just don't do it.
Jesus fucking Christ.
This is why we need blind
Worked there briefly. Mediocre talent and pay.
Does capital one sponsor h1b
Only for Senior Manager and up...
No
Not recommend if you are interested in SF! Go to their VA office and you might find something interesting. Again, chances of doing anything interesting is highly doubtful!
Lots of lots of Indians there. Hard to blend into clique if you’re not an Indian
That’s not entirely true! They have good mixed!
And no Indians in Microsoft?
They do stack ranking / forced ranking. That means they lay off 10% every year. It creates a lot of toxic relationships and behavior. Its smarter on your part if you run away screaming 'fuck no!' at the recruiters. They're the front wheels on the bus they throw people under later.
It is a forced stack ranking, but I didn't see layoffs in my team or around
People are not necessarily laid off immediately after a forced ranking. You get put on coaching plan and performance improvement plan. I think it's after 2 consecutive forced ranking, that leads to termination
Amazing
It's a big company and different experiences abound. However SF seems like the worst office to work in.
Its not. The worst ones are when you're the leftovers after they've laid off everyone else in the location.
Tbh, sf is going through an identity crisis though. Too much dependency on easy coast teams.
I’m at C1 now. East coast. C1 is trying hard to be a software company. We need more good talent to help fight the bureaucracy. If they can match your comp and you find a good place where you can make an impact and help the company grow then it’s an ok place.
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I thought Uber has the most interesting projects , no ?
Yes but I like to interview yearly... Keeps my value high and my skills sharp
Lol who said uber has interesting projects ? It’s only those who don’t know say that :)