Capital One reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(18,971 total reviews)
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Richard D. Fairbank

75% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Capital One has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 18,971 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Capital One employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Mar 31, 2023
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Pros

Lots of internal learning and development opportunities. High tech and social learning opportunities.

Cons

Extremely political and subjective appraisal process. A manager can shine a light on the smallest development need or area of growth and completely ignore or dismiss positive performance results. It’s all about being known and liked by a broad audience and making sure your manager likes you and wants you to move forward or up. If they don’t, they have the power to discredit any accomplishment. The cultural philosophies sound great, but they aren’t actually followed or executed. The appraisal process is labor intensive and time consuming but doesn’t yield accurate results. It’s not transparent. Often you don’t find out the benchmarks by which you’ll be measured until the END of that evaluation period. The calibration model creates forced “losers” regardless of performance. It’s not a totally fair process.

1.0
Jul 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Nope, not even the upfront PTO can count as a pro when this job stresses you out to the point that you're using it rapidly to give yourself a break from the nonsense you deal with on a daily basis.

Cons

The customer service department [or CX Voice as they used to call it] is an impossible department to work in . . . Useless 10 week training period and ridiculous metrics to maintain with no support made it impossible to enjoy working there. Never in my life have I been at a job where other newbies are sharing there own cheat sheets amongst the training class because leadership did not prepare us properly. I would know, I created around 15 pages worth of notes during those 10 weeks. Associates [aka acquirers] can only transfer calls to managers when requested by the customer . . . Meaning that if a customer is not understanding us despite various attempts, we must stay on the line with them regardless if the phone call goes over the time limit. Push back while transferring calls is the norm regardless if the call shouldn't have been routed to your queue. Risk "whatever the name of the department is" that monitors calls picks and chose who to ding for "unsatisfactory" calls . . . Good employees that actively try their best are often left to dry over things out of their control. This department is a literal free for all and I wouldn't recommend Capital One as an employer to anyone.

1.0
Jun 30, 2022

RACIST MANAGEMENT

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Pros

Great Benefits & Amenities. They try to encourage a great work-life balance

Cons

Racist management especially if you are black or latino. Lots of unnecessary meetings and they don’t want you to develop into a great professional but more so they try to kick you down by saying that you lack ownership and communication. Management often makes you feel like you are the worst associate in the world when they are the worst managers without any HR knowledge but more importantly managers will retaliate against you for receiving a low score in the ALL ASSOCIATE SURVEY.

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