Overall good company to work for - Anonymous employee Capital One Employee Review

4.0
May 30, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- great pay - quarterly (or more frequent) gifts - great people in a supportive environment - lots of opportunity to learn, receive certifications for free, etc

Cons

- performance management is awful. You can do your job above and beyond and still receive bad ratings based on their stack ranking system. Part few years have been especially difficult. - hard to get promoted if you’re not in the right group, have the right management, have the right budget, etc - requirements to return to office are getting stricter to 3 days in office. Would not be surprised if that got more frequent.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Salary, benefits, mobility for internal transfers

Cons

I have been a part of Capital One for more than 20 years, most of my career. It was an exciting growth culture in the early years. Our team culture was very strong. People looked out for each other and worked toward a collective good. Around 2019 a shift began in leadership. Politics became more important and forced distribution, stack ranking, and performance management targets became more prevalent. When the pandemic hit, it broke the strong in person culture of this company. Many left for the lure of FAANG and other companies offering remote work for promotion and higher pay. It was a chance to jump the line and come back later. In the meantime COF hired people who tired of the relentless pace of Amazon, Google, and other tech companies. We also hired in big bank culture of JPM Chase and Goldman. This has resulted in a toxic, political, cutthroat culture with constant reorgs. I’m planning to leave this organization in the next 12 months. It is sad what it has become. I know tenured leaders, great people who look out for others and have helped me succeed over the years, who are miserable here. DFS colleagues from the acquisition are leaving in droves.

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