Capital One Associate Machine Learning Engineer reviews

Here is the reality of being a machine learning engineer at C1, despite all the social media marketing: you are rebuilding a tool that readily exists in commercial and open-source projects, which no one else uses within the company, except the MLEs who are building it, in order to justify continuing to build it. At the end of the day, you are reproducing an overengineered solution, which is also (in-part) intended to remove the need for your role (and data scientists). Modeling experience is largely non-existent since your time is best spent reinventing the wheel, Furthermore, you are also going to end up in effectively the only MLE org within the company, which also has one of the worst happiness and management cultures within all of Capital One. Prepare to spend everyday working with mostly arrogant and unpleasant (to put it mildly) managers, who lack tech experience in many instances, while privately commiserating with coworkers in Slack. If you have experience elsewhere, you will be amazed to see such joyless teams.

This review maybe only apply to a specific sub LOB, but if you are in this sub LOB, you know what I am talking about They hire you as machine learning engineer , you then found there is nothing in your daily work has anything to do with machine learning, and half of your time is working on governace, OPL, your skillsets or domain knowledge on machine learning will diminish due to lack of use The managers who have machine learning tiles know nothing about machine learning. they got this title when the organization shift it's focus on machine learning, and need the headcount to show the stackholder that C1 is AI driven . they never understood nor appreciation your insight or skillsets, on the contrary, some managers exhibit hostility due to feeling threatened by they hired machine learning engineers' better insight on the project as a whole Stay away if you are machine learning engineer