Have to take the good with the bad here. - Risk Management Capital One Employee Review

2.0
18 Oct 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.

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5.0
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Pros

Work life balance is great

Cons

Commute to work is awful

3.0
19 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the smartest individuals in their fields. The focus is always “forward” and the company is willing to adopt new tech to stay ahead for the purposes of the company’s (key word there) benefit. Great PTO and benefits.

Cons

The company’s drive to keep itself moving forward has caused it to regress in other aspects. As a leading tech company first, and leading bank second, it’s embarrassing what their stance is on hybrid and remote work. The company can easily accommodate remote options for their employees not near main offices, but chooses not to. I am relocating to a major city with no major CapOne presence and their response was “too bad, either fly up weekly or you’ll be terminated for not meeting the hybrid requirements”. It’s embarrassing because most of my week is remote anyways. I wonder how many current and past employees have been impacted, and I’m worried about how much talent they’ll be pushing away in the coming years.

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