Capital One reviews

4.5

100% would recommend to a friend

(13,175 total reviews)
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Richard D. Fairbank

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99% positive business outlook

Capital One has an employee rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 13,175 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Capital One employee rating is 21% above average for employers within the Financeiro industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
May 1, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Most of the people you work with are genuinely good people, a few actually care about you. This does not include anyone that's a manager or above, however.

Cons

Oh God where to start. First the in-office situation is untenable. In addition to lack of meeting spaces, terrible parking availability, and an open office that does not allow for productive work, it is really unfortunate how employees are forced into a ranked performance system where great employees are given below average ratings solely to satisfy the ranking metrics. Heaven help you if you have a manager that isn't particularly good at their job, they will throw you under the bus time and time again to cover their behinds. RTO has been an utter disaster, forcing people to come back to the office only to spend their days on Zoom which is just as easily accomplished at home. Leadership never ever ever ever admits they're wrong or they've made a mistake, no matter how glaringly obvious it is. This is not the Capital One from 10 years ago which was a vibrant, engaging, great place to work.

1.0
Nov 4, 2023

Beware

Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits and good compensation. Severance packages are generous, which is good since they layoff 8-15% every 6 month performance cycle.

Cons

Stack rankings are creating an extremely negative work environment. If you loved middle drama, Capital One is a great work place, but if you struggle with any mental health related issues, steer clear. Orgs are hiring to fire so I can protect their existing employees. Everyone is so stressed knowing another 10% are going under the bus at year end. Being a veteran, my mental health has really taken a bad turn while working here. Always looking for reasons to tear you down.

1.0
Oct 8, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

- There are many opportunities to learn new skills as an engineer at Capital One - As an engineer, you will work with other very talented engineers, which will improve your software engineering skills

Cons

- Work-life balance does not exist for Capital One software engineers - Performance management is overly competitive, stressful, and similar to how the big tech companies run performance management - The compensation offered is middle-of-the-market at best and is nowhere near the compensation offered in big tech, which does not justify the quality and amount of work demanded of Capital One engineers or the stress caused by the competitive nature of performance management - High performing engineers who lack leadership and interpersonal skills are promoted to management positions without any management training, which can result in a negative experience for the engineers who report to these new managers and would benefit from reporting to an experienced engineering manager

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