Captech is an amateurish, mid-sized consulting firm that doesn’t have any peers because they can’t compete with any firms outside of Richmond. They’re a small fish in an ocean. They bill themselves as an alternative to the big firms because their leadership is filled with uninspiring, tone-deaf, ex-big 4 consultants who couldn’t hack it in the other firms.
Their pay is at the bottom compared with other firms. They go hard trying to sell their bonus structure during the interview process, but you soon realize the compensation package is subpar. On top of the low compensation, the unstructured promotion process has no verifiable guidelines and appears to be based more on cronyism than merit. Additionally, you’ll never get a real answer from leadership on internal work and how it contributes to compensation and promotions.
The culture has steadily gone downhill in the past few years. Those who have the courage to bring it up are labeled by HR so it’s better to keep quiet rather than be alienated. They talk about belonging like it’s been a cornerstone of their existence but, in reality, they had little to no diversity and inclusion efforts before 2020. Since then, they pay lip-service to it and run with a D&I playbook that looks like HR did an internet search on “how to be diverse.”
If you read through other reviews, you’ll see that most of what I mentioned are consistent themes that are never addressed by HR leadership. They’d rather convince themselves that it’s just “disgruntled” employees than pull their heads out of the sand and try to fix the issues. Great companies and leaders recognize faults and address them, CapTech fails miserably.
