Capital One reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(18,991 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 18,991 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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19K reviews
2.0
Oct 18, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Capital One has a great benefits program and they do promote work/life balance. You get work from home days regularly in back office jobs. They also promote community service and giving back which I like a lot.

Cons

Work/life balance is hard to achieve with long hours and work phones. You feel like you’re always attached to the job. The company in general doesn’t live by their own values (do the right thing). Lots of gaps and areas of improvement. Middle management is terrible (micro managers or completely incompetent) and upper management is completely out of touch with levels under them. Performance management needs to be completely revamped. Employees are rated more on defined “competencies” than actual metrics of performance. These “competencies” are things like communication or influence which are completely subjective and at your managers discretion. Basically you can be terrible at your job but if your manager likes you, you can get promoted. Also, management for the most part is a “good ol boys” club and lacks diversity - mainly women or dare I say it....women with families.

1.0
Sep 18, 2019

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Recommend
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Pros

There are Very Few Pros

Cons

Not a company that you want to work for.

3.0
Jul 17, 2019

Think twice

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Pros

Great campus, mostly nice people on the surface, challenging work, work-life balance. Decent severance package

Cons

I (along with many others) was hired a year ago only to be laid off due yet another restructure/re-org which already happened shortly after I joined. Capital One should have clear goals when hiring new people who left a former job for a new opportunity.

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