YMMV - Sr Associate Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
May 23, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* health insurance * fertility benefits * salary is above-average compared to most industries * The work can be interesting when considering the technical scale and exposure

Cons

* performance management at Cap 1 sucks. management never prepared in advance, overpromises and you're stuck footing their bill. your career in this company really depends on how well your manager represents you. * YMMV it's very much dependent on your team, others have said they enjoy their job * Compensation isn't commensurate for level of work put in. The incentive structure just doesn't work for inhouse knowledge to stay within the company. * The company has recently been hiring ex-Amazon employees at C-suite, whose employee all-hands meetings in the past has berated his predecessors, lowering morale. * Hybrid mandate was completely botched. * TREx - 2-4 times a year you will lose a week + 1 weekend night to artificial outings that enterprise will cause to verify your apps failover from one region to another. why this can't be done during business hours is beyond me but staying up on friday nights from 11-3 AM for a fake production incident isn't right. * Enterprise teams are off point. There was a solid 6 weeks of Jenkins team having slowdowns, awful documentation of OnePipeline that doesn't provide the support it needs to engineers, Cyber throwing tantrums to quarantine engineering resources blocking production deployments for 600 hundred engineering teams. Some of this has to do with performance incentivizing bringing new platform teams to life for "impact" so a lot of these were rushed but owning these platforms often doesn't produce internal support level needed.

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5.0
Jun 20, 2026
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Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance is a plus here

Cons

Up to you to find opportunities to push yourself

3.0
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the smartest individuals in their fields. The focus is always “forward” and the company is willing to adopt new tech to stay ahead for the purposes of the company’s (key word there) benefit. Great PTO and benefits.

Cons

The company’s drive to keep itself moving forward has caused it to regress in other aspects. As a leading tech company first, and leading bank second, it’s embarrassing what their stance is on hybrid and remote work. The company can easily accommodate remote options for their employees not near main offices, but chooses not to. I am relocating to a major city with no major CapOne presence and their response was “too bad, either fly up weekly or you’ll be terminated for not meeting the hybrid requirements”. It’s embarrassing because most of my week is remote anyways. I wonder how many current and past employees have been impacted, and I’m worried about how much talent they’ll be pushing away in the coming years.

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