Top Down leadership driven Vs Bottom up engineers driven company - Director, Software Engineering Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Jan 24, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Vacation, PTO, 401k, campus & Cafeteria

Cons

Favoritism, Tech company but no respect for tech engineers, top down thinking, little space for innovation because most of the time you spend on making decks for VP+ for their Executive meeting. And remaining time you spend solving tech Vs product politics. Performance Management process need so much improvement in terms of stack ranking associates per their strengths and not because favorite of D+ community

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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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