Good people, bad practices - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Aug 29, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Genuinely really great and talented people working here, and the intended work-life balance is pretty good, but I say intended for a reason

Cons

It's been said a thousand times, the performance review here is terrible. It encourages you to not help your teammates because their success is necessarily your loss, and their loss is your gain. I know people try to ignore that aspect, but when it gets close to that review period there is a distinct increase in wait time to get PR reviews and large decrease in help from teammates. It's a terrible incentive structure and absolutely hurts team morale and cooperation; plus it destroys any semblence of the work-life balance Capital One professes to have. You need to be better. Your managers will tell you to get off at 5 but everyone knows that at the end of the day, you work as much as it takes to do better than your teammates. It's a dog-eat-dog culture and nobody likes it. As an asside don't plan on working your way up here, getting promotions is a real bear of a task and your work-life balance is going to get so much worse in order to get there.

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5.0
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Pros

Good opportunity and good career development

Cons

Pay is not competitive in the current market

1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Environment was good, food was decent, free food at my location (dont know if it was allowed but it was good)

Cons

The rittenhouse location is managed by a tyrant, he is an incredibly toxic man and upper management make it the most unbearable place to work. Andy will ask you to come in on days you're not scheduled, and then hold it over your head if you don't. Talks about employees behind their backs constantly. No respect enforced employees talked about each other all the time and there was even name calling in meetings, management did nothing. Worst place I've ever worked in my life frankly and affected my mental health in the worst way. Glad to be out out of there. The place itself has potential but the management at the Rittenhouse branch and above them is absolutely terrible in every regard.

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