Capital One reviews

5.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(13,156 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 13,156 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 18, 2024
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Pros

There are a lot of exciting projects to work on within the Company that have a wide variety of technologies that are used. If you possess the right skills, then Internal Mobility will be your best friend if you want to explore different areas within the Company. Compensation is pretty good for the industry, and there are quite a few events throughout the year to show employee appreciation (if you are able to make it them).

Cons

The stack ranking process during the mid-year and end-of-year reviews has caused a lot of anxiety amongst employees. Doing everything that is expected of you on a day-to-day basis is simply not enough, and you will get low ratings if you do make sure that you go above and beyond on everything, and there is a huge emphasis on getting "face time" with upper management. If you find yourself if an office where there isn't a lot of upper management, you will find this to be a very difficult to task. Many teams are also very overworked. Although there have been numerous times that employee surveys have indicated lack of trust in leadership and feeling burnt out, nothing happens aside from them saying "we will work on it" and giving us a free lunch.

1.0
Jun 27, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great offices, great co-workers and good food options

Cons

Management is awful, they have stop hiring all these clueless leaders. and stop hiring leaders from Amazon, they are bringing their toxic amazon culture to Capital One. Performance management has been getting worse over the last 3 years. They are always changing the bar without any real feedback. forced PIPs for bs reasons like not doing enough presentations... really?

2.0
May 23, 2024

YMMV

Recommend
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Pros

* health insurance * fertility benefits * salary is above-average compared to most industries * The work can be interesting when considering the technical scale and exposure

Cons

* performance management at Cap 1 sucks. management never prepared in advance, overpromises and you're stuck footing their bill. your career in this company really depends on how well your manager represents you. * YMMV it's very much dependent on your team, others have said they enjoy their job * Compensation isn't commensurate for level of work put in. The incentive structure just doesn't work for inhouse knowledge to stay within the company. * The company has recently been hiring ex-Amazon employees at C-suite, whose employee all-hands meetings in the past has berated his predecessors, lowering morale. * Hybrid mandate was completely botched. * TREx - 2-4 times a year you will lose a week + 1 weekend night to artificial outings that enterprise will cause to verify your apps failover from one region to another. why this can't be done during business hours is beyond me but staying up on friday nights from 11-3 AM for a fake production incident isn't right. * Enterprise teams are off point. There was a solid 6 weeks of Jenkins team having slowdowns, awful documentation of OnePipeline that doesn't provide the support it needs to engineers, Cyber throwing tantrums to quarantine engineering resources blocking production deployments for 600 hundred engineering teams. Some of this has to do with performance incentivizing bringing new platform teams to life for "impact" so a lot of these were rushed but owning these platforms often doesn't produce internal support level needed.

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