Toxic workplace - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Sep 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

-Good salary for the area, although not good enough for the toxicity -Decent Tech/experience

Cons

-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

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5.0
Jun 10, 2026
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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
Jun 19, 2026
Recommend
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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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