A company that used to be good to work for - Manager, Software Engineering Capital One Employee Review

3.0
Jan 24, 2025
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Pros

Very forward tech stack for a bank; 100% AWS cloud environment; fairly competitive pay bands. Good work life balance (but that is changing over the last few years)

Cons

management and teams continually hamstrung by leadership; tone-deaf to remote work and employee surveys, recent wave of ex-AWS leadership to Cap1 brings over a toxic competitive culture and increasingly savage/political performance review culture that forces out good employees and promotes empty impact-less vanity projects for promotion.

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Capital One is a tech-first company. Most of the latest tech skills, tools, and practices are implemented. Most teams have interesting work where you learn and get to apply your skills.

Cons

Often, the new development work is assigned to the full-time employees. Access to many of the tools is also restricted to the FT employees

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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