Reflections on Capital One - Anonymous employee Capital One Employee Review

3.0
25 Jan 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Definitely good benefits, training opportunities, and technology tools. Campus is great and the ability to work mobile/remote is valued. Some managers care about their employees and can be great mentors/leaders. Opportunity exists to move around and try different jobs as wanted.

Cons

Performance management is brutal. You are expected to achieve at a high level all the time and continue to take on more and more. There is no work-life balance (trust me, I was there for over 15 years and I know what that looked like in the past). If you don't work at least 50+ hours then you will be lucky to get a strong (meets expectations) rating. Constant reorgs/shuffle of leadership. More and more the focus is to bring in new college level resources and to hire outside management. Most of old school Capital One leadership has been shipped out. Also, promotion process is more about who you know (political) than your actual value/abilities. It is a meat grinder at time...culture is now about what have you done for me today. I definitively feel bad about how things are there now (have many friends there, all anxious about what will come next and if their job will be move to another location or cut or even managed out if they don't want to continue to work long hours with high stress).

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
19 June 2026
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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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