Horrible Workplace - Branch Manager Capital One Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great benefits and many locations to move around. Great place to learn all about banking.

Cons

Generations of managers that only know how to think like the former Chevy Chase Bank and have no clue what the rest of the industry does. The culture is all about favoritism and unfair treatment of staff. They never give you the information upfront and it is a forever parking lot of hidden agendas. Branches runing with skeleton crews are the norm, employees get transferred without notice, and there is a culture of crazy operations requirements that are put on the mananger's all the time. It usually feels like manangment is out to get you in order to avoid giving you a raise at the end.

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Cons

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