Capital One Principal Associate Software Engineer reviews

3.8

83% would recommend to a friend

(19 total reviews)
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Richard D. Fairbank

80% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Principal Associate Software Engineer employees have rated Capital One with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 19 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Associate Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Capital One is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Associate Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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19 reviews
1.0
Sep 19, 2024
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Pros

Nice people Pay is decent but not worth the headache Pays for AWS certs Free O'reilly subscription

Cons

Stack ranking encourages backstabbing between coworkers. Management is forced to play favorites and hire people as PIP fodder to keep the employees they'd like to keep Constant reorgs. You join a team under one manager and a couple months later you have a completely new manager. They will PIP you and later try to constantly rehire you as a contractor for less pay/benefits Lots of on-call makes for poor WLB requiring you to work weekends and late nights. Quarterly failover exercises which are done after hours so I hope you don't like sleeping. Generous severance but due to their incompetence they will miscalculate and once you think you are done with them they will come knocking on your door

3.0
Jul 22, 2024
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Pros

Business outlook is good, One Fexible day every month Tech stack is good, AWS used a lot

Cons

Performance management rank review twice a year

3.0
Jul 17, 2024
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Pros

- Benefits - Education Resources - Pay

Cons

- Rating system is unfair and causes constant instability > Forcing a specific percentage of employees in a tower to be fired or laid off every year makes it really hard to have a consistent team of well performing engineers and makes it so that senior engineers are constantly training new engineers instead of building a good product > It chips away team morale and turnover is fairly high because of that - Culture is hollow and hypocritical > They advertise how inclusive they are but every team I have been on has had fairly blatant sexism > They advertise how eco-friendly they are and how "liberal" they are but invest in businesses and projects that directly go against those aims - Work Life Balance > They like to tell employees that work life balance is a high priority, but every team I have been on has worked 60 hour weeks fairly routinely and the priorities that management sets makes it near impossible to work normal hours and still hit all benchmarks

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