Capital One reviews

5.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(13,124 total reviews)
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Richard D. Fairbank

100% approve of CEO

100% positive business outlook

Capital One has an employee rating of 5.0 out of 5 stars, based on 13,124 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Capital One employee rating is 34% above average for employers within the Finanzas industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Aug 25, 2024
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Pros

Great compensation, smart coworkers, good projects, etc.

Cons

In hindsight, I suppose the issues I encountered were similar to those that I read about before joining the company: get on the wrong side of the wrong person/people and you may find yourself without a job. While I admit to having fumbled some deadlines on projects early in my stint with C1, I was put on a PIP & made very sincere effort to improve my performance. Before being fired, my manager told me he had "seen my improvements," and that I wouldn't have been put on a PIP if I had performed so well earlier in the year. It made me feel ill/uneasy hearing my manager say "you're performing at 100%, but when you're on a PIP, we expect 150%... 200%." At that point, I knew there was no pleasing my manager - I had gotten on the bad side of him, and he didn't want me around. Ultimately, if I had to retry working at C1, I would've tried to impress everyone immediately & do everything to be seen as a hungry go-getter in search of approval/accolades, rather than being a quiet engineer who kept to himself, trying to acclimate to the job/tech-stack in the background. There's no saving yourself once you've been singled out. This was my first time in such a cut-throat corporate environment, and I didn't get hip to the culture until it was too late. My stress levels were very high throughout my tenure at C1, and I don't miss it.

5.0
Mar 17, 2016

A Company with a Heart

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic work/life balance, the ability to work remotely for some roles, fun work environment, great company culture and values, corporate citizenship and volunteerism, open communication, visibility to and from leadership, onsite campus amenities (cafes, gym, health center), great benefits, awesome people and opportunities for training and growth.

Cons

Career pathing and growth opportunities for some roles, lower salary, flawed promotional process and at times slow execution on initiatives and deliverables.

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Capital One Response
10y
Hi! Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. We will definitely keep asking for advice, input, comments and feedback - you put it well, we're continually striving to be better, smarter, and more efficient as we grow in our mission. Thanks for the pulse check!
2.0
Oct 1, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

End to end view of Credit ecosystem Corporate Learning - there are internal courses to learn a load of things from people who have been in the top roles in the company Easy to switch teams WLB was great but is constantly deteriorating nowadays

Cons

Performance management This would take whole book to write about but still wouldn't make sense as to why they have it in such an outdated fashion twice a year leaving lesser time for actual work to be done. You gotta be popular in your team and some more to do well in this job. This isn't a role for heads down work. Take up this job only if you are great at making decks and presenting them, actual analysis may or may not be important depending on which team you are in but if you make pretty slides with pretty graphs that your skip likes then you might get to keep the job

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