3.0
Dec 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Really smart people who will demand your best - you won't know what you're capable of until you work at a place like Capital One. The guiding strategy for carefully managing growth and projecting into down markets has been right-on in really rocky times like now.
Cons
Lack of transparency in strategic decision making; "analysis paralysis" that causes over-socialization of plans and delays implementation; hyper-competitiveness that causes inhibition in sharing ideas that might seem less than brilliant; opaque promotion process that doesn't give employees clear targets to shoot for.