Increasingly toxic management and no career development - Anonymous employee Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Sep 13, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most team members you’ll work with are the smartest and sweetest people that makes working there more bearable and great benefits

Cons

Over the last few years, I’ve noticed management being increasingly toxic. Managers gaslight you into believing you don’t know how to do your job properly and make you believe you won’t find a better job opportunity outside of this company. They will nitpick about tasks that are not even in your work scope. Some people’s leaders don’t wanna be held accountable and are ready to throw you under the bus to save themselves as they can be clueless about what you’re working on and do not understand at all although you keep sharing the same information with them but they pretend to understand everything as an act because they have too much ego to ask questions and always forget about updates you give them. Also priorities keep shifting which feels disorganized and feels like I worked for a startup.

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