Capital One employees allege racial bias in hiring
11 posts across 4 communities in the last 60 days; 36% from r/cscareerquestions.
“Literally just got an account warning today for raising this very issue in another sub and did not even mention group or ethnicity. Same with interviewing, you can daily tell in seconds if you’re gonna make it to the next stage or not by who makes up 100% of the panel… it’s…”
“Still might be better than your current sitch or if your unemployed like i was. Pay is good. Politics aren’t as bad as when i worked at Amazon”
“How did you validate that all of their employees are not white? You seem like you’re looking to sue someone”
Several users claim Capital One exhibits racial bias, citing specific instances and legal consultations. Some commenters dismiss the claims, while others acknowledge potential issues within the company's culture.
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“Still might be better than your current sitch or if your unemployed like i was. Pay is good. Politics aren’t as bad as when i worked at Amazon”
Its still bigotry, if no near as heinous. [re: Capital One PIP culture]
my experience with capitol one was eye opening. never want to work there
“How did you validate that all of their employees are not white? You seem like you’re looking to sue someone”
“Thanks for the info. Even if nothing comes of it, would it be in OP’s best interest to talk to a lawyer and try and squeeze money out of this or to just play it safe and wait and keep their job.”
“why would the 'n-word' be the example you use here...? have you used the n-word enough to know how people react? odd.”
“The more qualified individual who gets passed up for a job or promotion simply because a company chooses race as a deciding factor is being racially discriminated against. Being of the same race as 2/3 of the employees doesn't erase this. But I get that it doesn't matter to you.”
“We are a multi regional company with rnd of 5000, doubt someone got burned, this is f up, and I don't know how it's legal”
“Yes. I can attest. As the only poc in a team of all white people. My cowrokers have all largely been great to work with that I never noticed their color. Many such teams and companies exist and function fine.”
“Yes, that's right--at least re: it being Indians and there being something that's "off." It's easy for it to simply seem like racism when you haven't dealt with it, but I have been dealing with staffing agencies for jobs for over 15 years now. There are white and black staffing agency recruiters who are full of shit, but it's in more of a ghosting and "smile and lie in your face" kind of way. Indians...it's everything from pretending to be in the US an”
“And if you notice or try to call all the bullshitting that happens in meetings you get called every slur lol”
“Literally just got an account warning today for raising this very issue in another sub and did not even mention group or ethnicity. Same with interviewing, you can daily tell in seconds if you’re gonna make it to the next stage or not by who makes up 100% of the panel… it’s absurd”
“companies do it for tax purposes the more minorities hire (ie non white, Gay, vets, etc) the more the government gives on incentives and breaks. The same goes for colleges/universities.”
“I mean, people do it for the same reason people everywhere do it...because there is literally no other person on the planet that understands your grievances like the person sitting in the office or cube next to you with similar grievances. We can complain to our spouse, to our parents, to our siblings and friends...but at the end of the day they can never really know the full picture because they're not literally in it like the guy you're bullshitting with waiting for the microwave to be”
“Capital One used to be pretty well-regarded in this sub as a great place to work. They really turned that around didn’t they?”
“Your comment is full of logical inconsistencies. Capital One had mass layoffs and performance based attrition back in the early days too. Not to the same extent. Things were different pre-COVID. I'm not the only one who's observed this. You're way too focused on something completely negligible, the era of free VC money has scattered a lot of Gen z brains into thinking layoffs and PIPs are new. Nobody is arguing that layoffs and PIPs are new. Not every successful company has the same”
“Lol the American racism goes broad - I'm from Brazil and I understand where you come from perfectly. Maybe anyone from the Western world kinda inherits that ick for what is labeled as foreign and projected onto the Other. We're doomed.”
“In the US that set of racial and socioeconomic questions are a special, carved off section of the job application. Americans are generally fine with it specifically because it has genuinely been optional and not shared with the actual hiring committee. You're perfectly free not to answer those questions and it has zero bearing on your application - and if you do answer them, they're just used to aggregate metrics reported to the government strictly by HR. Culturally, US employers just si”
“What? My statement was on disparate impact, which is a very real thing. I'm not sure what your response regarding? I get shopped all the time by people trying to scam a legal claim. We might have 20+ units on the market at any one time. If we weren't methodical about leasing we'd be sued into oblivion in a month.”
“Sounds like a discrimination lawsuit especially with evidence. Holy hell how are they that dumb.”
“Ehhh relatively, sure. One lawyer I spoke to said the timing was weird, and the unemployment guy who heard their side of the case said the same thing. And I have enough evidence of racial jabs that to make reasonable people believe there was some racial bias present”
“I think it’s less so the company as a whole, but i did experience racism and some microsgressions at capital one as well. I think that’s moreso being in a place where we’re a very small minority”
“Can’t take you seriously with your replies in this thread and how emotionally charged your comments are. If you legitimately have indisputable proof, you’re gonna be a rich man.”
“Details pending a possible court case, but Capital One is racist towards black people. One man has recently filed a lawsuit citing race, and I’m here to add to that and say I was wrongfully terminated from capital one, the day after MLK day, with very racist undertones throughout. Do not work for Capital One. If you have talent, take it elsewhere as soon as possible. If anyone can point me in the right direction to sue these fuckers please let me know. I deserve millions but I can’t prove everyt”