Culture still sucks, with possible signs of hope appearing - Principal Associate Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
15 Dec 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-They are supposedly working on improving developer experience by automating things. CodeGenie is a good example. It's slowly getting better. -EP Tech LOB is not so bad -C1 seems to be more ethical than some other banks -Biggest glimmer of hope is that C1 may be learning from their mistakes of overly favoring internal tooling over working off the shelf solutions

Cons

-Explanations for the reasoning behind major initiatives that is propagated to developers is often surface-level, sometimes even deceptive. -Pay should be better for the workload especially for LOBs like Card -Blockers due to nearly unusable internal tooling is a major cause of deadlines being missed. -Stack ranking leads to CPs and PIPs for trivial reasons and there's no way to appeal or argue against this other than knowing your legal rights. -Capital One is not an organization that is fond of Crucial Conversations. This is more of an organization that likes to blame people lower on the hierarchy for management mistakes. It happens all the time. -Going back to 3 days in the office

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5.0
22 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very friendly and helpful co-workers

Cons

Worked with only one department instead of working with multiple departments

3.0
19 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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