Too much bureaucracy and middle management - Senior Machine Learning Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Aug 14, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay and benefits. The company also invests heavily in tech and machine learning.

Cons

There's simply a lot of bureaucracy and layers of middle managers. If you're a builder at heart, you'll be frustrated quickly since things move very slowly. Also, career advancement depends mostly on the ability to gain visibility with higher-ups rather than actual performance and contribution.

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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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