Capital One reviews

Very low pay for senior software engineers. Poor base salary, no stock options, and laughably low bonus for this level. Lack of stability due to twice a year PIP culture with long performance review cycles with management forced to put people on the chopping block. Toxic work culture due to two performance reviews per year and constantly being pushed to deliver results. Terrible pay for something at if not exceeding Amazon's PIP culture. Constantly working with outdated tech such as Java and a lot of red tape to gain access to resources and services. Months, if not years for new technologies and systems to be approved. Due to the above, working at Capital One can become toxic by association and can make it much harder to find future roles at more prestigious companies. Many of the most talented people quickly leave for better opportunities.

-Talent is pretty mediocre. Some of the people are awful engineers, not very bright people but as widely established performance management is less about how good you are and more about politics. -performance management. Subjective mess twice a year. You will constantly worry about potentially not having a job in 3-4 months -You have to go through a 2-4 week review process for any changes you want to make, it’s an engineer’s nightmare come true. Even the most simple changes. -“eliminate arbitrary uniqueness” so let’s create 20 enterprise platforms that barely work, non deterministic, and make it where engineers are bottlenecked by the platform team as opposed to using open sourced widely adopted industry tools that people can find support for online. Nice job, tech leadership. What a stupid idea