Terrible hire to fire culture - Senior Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Oct 16, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and benefits. It's dumb to force people into the office but they're pretty flexible about it. Seem to slowly be ratcheting up return to office, it was 2 days when I started, then it went to 3 so expect it to keep going up.

Cons

At mid and end year reviews they fire 10-15% off staff going by stacked ranking. This means even if you're good at your job you can get fired if the rest of your team is perceived better in some way. It leads to a culture of favoritism and stifles collaboration because we're all basically competing against each other. You have one on ones with your manager every 2 weeks. After getting nothing but praise at these meetings, suddenly at mid year reviews there was a BIG PROBLEM with how I handled something from 6 months ago. So terrible that they put me on a PIP. Why didn't we talk about this before? There were so many chances to help me fix this alleged problem, but success and results aren't the point, they just needed to sacrifice someone. Saw it happen to others before it happened to me and they tried to work through it and fix the "problem" with their work, only to get fired anyway. They were hard workers who were good at their jobs and did not deserve that humiliation. I just quit rather than go through such a humiliation ritual. A few years ago I was a lot less confident in myself and this would have crushed me, but fortunately I was able to see it for what it was.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Environment was good, food was decent, free food at my location (dont know if it was allowed but it was good)

Cons

The rittenhouse location is managed by a tyrant, he is an incredibly toxic man and upper management make it the most unbearable place to work. Andy will ask you to come in on days you're not scheduled, and then hold it over your head if you don't. Talks about employees behind their backs constantly. No respect enforced employees talked about each other all the time and there was even name calling in meetings, management did nothing. Worst place I've ever worked in my life frankly and affected my mental health in the worst way. Glad to be out out of there. The place itself has potential but the management at the Rittenhouse branch and above them is absolutely terrible in every regard.

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