Everything was roses - Anonymous employee Capital One Employee Review

1.0
18 Oct 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits are okay. Take advantage of tuition reimbursement there. Most of the intelligent people there do. Other standard benefits.

Cons

It was all roses to start, but I quickly learned plenty of obstacles had to be hurdled daily to get my job done. Had to seek out information, seek out the right people with said information, get approvals within and outside my department, even outside the state, for small things. Those in mid and upper management seem to be clueless and out of touch. As long as the company is making progress, damn the stock prices. My stock there was originally $80/share, but fell to $40 over five years. They often seek barely warm bodies with a few active brain cells for management positions and these people are ill equipped. Many of the managers could use communication skills and human communication 101 lessons.

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