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      Capital One

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      Capital One reviews

      3.6

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (18,961 total reviews)
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      Richard D. Fairbank

      75% approve of CEO

      63% positive business outlook

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      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.4

      Career opportunities

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.0

      Senior management

      Capital One has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 18,961 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
      Nov 19, 2024

      Nothing to learn in a bank pretends to be a tech company

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Better WLB than Amazon. Fancy HQ.

      Cons

      I learned nothing since I came here because most engineers are clueless on what they do (including staff engineers). Hiring bar for engineers is very low compared to actual tech companies. The average code quality across all tech departments is worse than CS undergrads. Culture is rapidly closing to amazon, and this is clearly intentional from the c-suite. C1 is hiring a lot of Amazonians from executive VP down to associate level. Meanwhile the pay is less than half of amazon. Almost everything, from platforms to frameworks, are built in house at Capital One. Debugging and using these platforms and frameworks are absolutely pain in the a**. CEO clearly wants to mimic Google and Amazon yet he didn't realize the talent pool aren't on the same level.

      1.0
      Nov 2, 2024

      Please Consider Another Company

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent pay, nice office, good coworkers depending on your team.

      Cons

      There are plenty of other reviews that go into detail about why you shouldn’t work at Capital One, so I would recommend reading those. In short, performance management is a joke and ~15% of the company is laid off every 6 months. Management makes decisions that consistently go against what the employees want. In general just a very toxic environment with too much politics for the compensation. It’s like they want to be Amazon, while paying employees half of what Amazon does.

      1.0
      Oct 30, 2024

      Abysmal leadership trickles down to bad environment

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Moderate technical freedom and choice per team. More modern tech stack than most traditional banking competitors.

      Cons

      Stack ranking makes it virtually impossible to advance without a nepotism inroad. Also forces lower managers to cull decent engineers without reason. Gaslighting and insistence by leadership on obviously non-employee-friendly matters. No one is saying that forcing increased in-office participation is a good idea unless they're trying to get in with a c-suite.

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