A Great Place to work, if you're on the right team - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

3.0
Aug 18, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

There are a lot of exciting projects to work on within the Company that have a wide variety of technologies that are used. If you possess the right skills, then Internal Mobility will be your best friend if you want to explore different areas within the Company. Compensation is pretty good for the industry, and there are quite a few events throughout the year to show employee appreciation (if you are able to make it them).

Cons

The stack ranking process during the mid-year and end-of-year reviews has caused a lot of anxiety amongst employees. Doing everything that is expected of you on a day-to-day basis is simply not enough, and you will get low ratings if you do make sure that you go above and beyond on everything, and there is a huge emphasis on getting "face time" with upper management. If you find yourself if an office where there isn't a lot of upper management, you will find this to be a very difficult to task. Many teams are also very overworked. Although there have been numerous times that employee surveys have indicated lack of trust in leadership and feeling burnt out, nothing happens aside from them saying "we will work on it" and giving us a free lunch.

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Note- last year there was 2018, would not allow that option. Employee engagement always high priority.

Cons

Note- last year there was 2018, would not allow that option. Highly focused on sales vs service.

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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