food court > the code - Senior Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

3.0
11 Jan 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The campus (West Creek) is incredible. Pay is relatively high for the area. The bar on hard skills is really low for engineers for comparable positions, so it makes this a great place to learn. Ton of volunteering positions for giving back to the community.

Cons

From the shared tech side of house- If you want a tech heavy, forward leaning programming job this ain't it chief. This is an "argue with the tech lead about why unit tests are important" type of job. If you try to improve the quality of programming, the populist hordes will scorn you. Adding tests and implementing design patterns takes too long, silly! You Build It You Own It culture translates internally to software developers that ship things without giving it any testing other than a quick, manual happy path. I never saw a solution get off the ground here. I consistently saw products being created that didn't meet the needs of our users, but did meet the political needs of certain managers. Inevitably, one crew of management would be fired or reorganized and another team would shepherd the product to its next phase. Be prepared to come in one day and have all your work cancelled or reorged away from you.

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Cons

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1.0
30 June 2026
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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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