Outside hires pray you can match performance of everyone in your role - Lead Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
14 Apr 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The people are good and you learn a lot. Lots of great open source and AWS tech to work with.

Cons

Their twice a year performance review process is horrible for outsiders joining. You will be compared against everyone with the same role in your org and they don't account for how long you've been at the company. 12% of employees in each role must be put in the poor performance bucket every review period. Despite the claim of a good work/life balance, I have not seen that in the tech teams at Capital One, particularly at the team lead and above positions. It's somewhat of a cutthroat environment in my opinion for the reviews. They've also become hostile to fully remote positions.

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5.0
19 May 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Pay can be decent compared to GovCon. Some people are a pleasure to work with. Other non-pay related incentives.

Cons

Never heard more nonsensical topics during meetings; people sharing their sexual preferences, flaunting overly dramatic personal lifestyle decisions, diversity to the point of failure, etc. Hearing the term "white guilt" in a professional setting was, well, pretty unprofessional. Stack ranking for performance reviews is a mess. Someone has to have an "F" regardless of their performance because that is what their line of business is allotted. Be prepared to be held responsible for actions any Sr Leadership would just sweep under the rug under their own circumstances. If a manager doesn't like you, regardless of your productivity, you're toast unless you're able to find another LoB to support. HR / AR are just a check in the box and will most likely point you from one to the other and back again without resolving any issues. You'll find yourself curious as to what leadership does as they continue to scrape managerial responsibilities from their plate, to yours. Last but certainly not least; you may find yourself working hard on a project; nights and weekends, just in case that work life balance is feeling a little too perfect. Fret not, someone will surely assist in taking credit for the hard work you've put in. I'm sure none of these things will happen to you, though. Best of luck!

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