Capital One reviews

4.6

100% would recommend to a friend

(13,208 total reviews)
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Richard D. Fairbank

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99% positive business outlook

Capital One has an employee rating of 4.6 out of 5 stars, based on 13,208 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Capital One employee rating is 24% above average for employers within the Financeiro industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Apr 12, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

starting salary is good and the food is good

Cons

All experiences are my own: The ranking review system is life-breaking. If you are lucky, you join a team with an understanding manager, but if you are unlucky, your manager will have no mercy on you, literally saying, “Well, maybe you can learn those things while you are resting or napping." The job distribution is not fair across the same job title. Be aware, some managers will bend the company policy to make you work more, and you will not have a place to complain about it because the managers are not being managed based on their humanity. This company is very result-driven, with no work-life balance. The onboarding process to learn the codebase is close to none, and the management team is abusive, but it does not seem anyone cares to report. The little guys suffer because they have to make the money.

3.0
Feb 21, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent company benefits. Unrivalled pension (Match up to 8% then they add 3%). Subsidised food and free gym. Competitive Salary Good tech stack Awesome people -- incredibly talented

Cons

Note: this is a very Engineering-specific job review. It won't apply to other areas. -You can't get anything done. -None of the work you have to do can be done by knuckling down and getting on with it. Nearly every task you have depends in some way on another team and on factors outside of your control. However, if you don't make it work, you will be punished for it in your performance review. -Most of the day-to-day work will involve working with processes, rather than code. If you like processes more than code, then this is the place for you. -And if you raise these concerns via their All associate survey, *you* will be tasked with fixing them and punished for not doing so. Toxic positivity is a phrase that comes to mind, because you also can't voice any negativity. -The hybrid working policy is a mess and is enforced by monitoring your card swipe data in office. It's a moving goalpost that changed from 2 days per week to 3 days.

2.0
Jan 15, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Competitive salary - Great 401k match - Good benefits - Conveniently located near Metro station - Remote flexibility (for now) - Some good people

Cons

- Stack ranking creates an unhealthy work culture where you're forced to throw others under the bus or be let go - Performance reviews are opaque - Way too many useless meetings - Work is pretty average, to relatively uninteresting depending on your team - Overall very toxic culture that leads to overwork and infighting - If you're driving, traffic is hell. Take the train.

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