Good benefits. Environment can be toxic. - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
8 Mar 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefit package. Good WLB.

Cons

It is a bank - meaning that c1 does NOT have a good tech culture that they are bragging about. If you decide to join, you might want to be mindful of selecting a good group. Talk to your future coworkers before you join. It will help. For me, it had been the worst experience in my career so far. I happened to experience organizational changes few months later after I joined. I can write a book to rant about my experience with C1 but I would like my review to be served as an informational guide for people who are considering to accept an offer: 1) The work is easy. The majority of the time I spent here is at meetings listening other people to argue about some nonsense and work that the manager tries to put the team through in order to make us look busy. 2) There are some chance that you can fall under a horrible manager. It depends on how “lucky” you are because reorg happens often. Btw, the definition of an “incompetent leader” to me: full of ego, hollow in knowledge, insecure, micromanaging, bossy, couldn’t care less about emoloyee’s wellbeing. It was my first time encountering toxic people in my life, so take my opinion with a grain of salt. 3) Stack ranking at a bank? As many of the other reviews have mentioned, your performance is evaluated against people at the same level as you. If you get a manager who is willing to advocate for you, then you are the lucky one. Although it is not guaranteed that you will get a “above strong” rating, your life will still be easier. If you happen to get a bad manager who only cares about the time you put into nonsense work because they don’t know much about tech, you will be as miserable as me :). Choose wisely.

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Note- last year there was 2018, would not allow that option. Employee engagement always high priority.

Cons

Note- last year there was 2018, would not allow that option. Highly focused on sales vs service.

3.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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