Capital One reviews

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(18,906 total reviews)
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Richard D. Fairbank

75% approve of CEO

62% positive business outlook

Capital One has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 18,906 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Capital One employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Nov 29, 2021
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Pros

Capital One is like the minor leagues for college grads. Great place to get paid and learn then bail. The best TDPs quit and join fang, the worst stay and become part of the problem.

Cons

Beyond the TDP program capital one is not a good place for engineers. It is all about politics and your brand when it comes to the stack ranking (aka required to fire a certain percent and promotions only possible if your peers are worse than you, no bigger pie just growth at the expense of others). As to being a “tech company” - what a joke.

1.0
Oct 21, 2021

Subpar Work Environment

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Pros

One star for the flexibility of taking time off

Cons

1. Performance management is extremely unfair and worthless 2. Management is extremely biased and feedbacks are extremely vague and useless for career growth 3. Full of passive aggressive, arrogant and condescending people who are full of themselves with their own ideas and opinions- those people always do ‘great’ and get promoted 4. Full of associates who are with Senior or above titles that are confused or not knowing what they are doing 5. Not much new development work for engineers - more maintenance 6. Overall engineers’ skills are very poor 7. No management only micromanagement

1.0
Aug 25, 2021

Hypocritic, hierarchical org and micromanaged by scrum masters/delivery leads

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good work life balance Good cafeteria ( when it was open) Free parking (when the office reopens)

Cons

Archaic and worst performance management system. They won't tell you at the time of hiring, but even with great performance you can be at the bottom. Delivery leads micromanage and try to squeeze every second of engineers time with no autonomy for engineers. Senior leaders are laid back, out of touch with tech and won't listen. Product org treats engineering organization like a slave.

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