Don't join - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Feb 4, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

- Pay is nice if you are being hired out of college - HSA is pretty nice - Stock Purchase Program. Stock is bought at the end of the month and can be sold once they hit your account. - Work life balance can be great depending on team

Cons

- If you are experienced hire you will be paid less than an entry level college hire - Company will make you lazy. Coding is secondary here. AWS and buggy enterprise tools is all you will deal with. - Performance Management Process is absolutely horrendous. Stack ranking makes performance management a popularity contest. You need to know how to play office politics. - No COL raises. Only merit raises. They will only give non merit based raises to TDPs (entry level college hires) - Work life balance can be horrible depending on team. - Getting promotions is heavily dependent on the organization you get hired to.

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5.0
May 27, 2026
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Pros

Good leadership, support from eng managers

Cons

Hard to level up in company

1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Environment was good, food was decent, free food at my location (dont know if it was allowed but it was good)

Cons

The rittenhouse location is managed by a tyrant, he is an incredibly toxic man and upper management make it the most unbearable place to work. Andy will ask you to come in on days you're not scheduled, and then hold it over your head if you don't. Talks about employees behind their backs constantly. No respect enforced employees talked about each other all the time and there was even name calling in meetings, management did nothing. Worst place I've ever worked in my life frankly and affected my mental health in the worst way. Glad to be out out of there. The place itself has potential but the management at the Rittenhouse branch and above them is absolutely terrible in every regard.

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