Culture has fallen off a cliff - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Sep 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There WERE several pros to working at capital one: - good work life balance - strong family culture - modern technology - investment in associates - focus on using the latest and greatest tech - reasonably competitive salary for low stress

Cons

All of the above has been eroded except for maybe the high WLB. There is still not much to do, as a lot of leaderships focus is on using a chainsaw to cut a sandwich. Theres a lot of talk about generative AI and using LLM's, but the amount of engineering work is nonexistent. Additionally, most of the time is spent on compliance and forcing everything to fit a standard but bad structure. We are solving the wrong problem but very efficiently. I have always complained about the poor practices at capital one but sucked it up for the chill WLB, but recently after 4 years I got PIP'd for no good reason! Their bizarre performance management practices are suddenly throwing random people into a PIP and firing them! So now its just a bad engineering culture with none of the coasting benefits! AVOID

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5.0
Jun 21, 2026
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Pros

Nice people and truly great work life balance (can be team dependent). Most people are in office 2-3 times a week. Food options are decent (6.8/10) but not as subsidized as I would prefer although they are less pricey than eating out at a Cava/Chipotle.

Cons

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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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