Capital One reviews

Stack Ranking - This past mid-year, 15% of employees were laid off. I wasn't one, but they are attempting to fire me/lay me off due to me calling out inefficiencies within the department. Ignores Disabilities - I had explained to my bosses that I was having issues with my disability. Rather than suggesting accommodations or short term disability, they ignored me. I went on short term disability for a month and LITERALLY the day I returned from disability, I was told I was trending downwards in my quarterly performance review and I would be placed on a coaching plan. My entire mid-year performance review mentioned the 1.5 months I had struggled with my disability. Nothing about my performance once I returned which was off the charts. Backstabbing - Do not trust anyone at this company. You would have to be a sociopath to survive here.

Forced Downtime: There were weeks I struggled to find 20-30 hours of work to do. Leadership from the Director+ level either had no vision for the product or failed to communicate it. Product always seemed lost. We never had a refined backlog. Enterprise teams were major blockers. Developers spend a lot of time just spinning their wheels. Forced downtime is nice occasionally but I was bored out of my mind far too often - I probably could have worked a second job. Enterprise Teams: Enterprise teams are absolutely atrocious. They were the number one blocker to getting anything done. Our CI/CD pipelines were continuously going down. You'd get nonsense errors and build failures for no reason at all. Builds took 30 minutes+ and would fail because some behind the scenes enterprise service was overburdened. It would often take days if not weeks to get a response from enterprise teams to fix critical issues with deployment. Development Process: Again, just like with enterprise teams this one was a headache. Architecture teams are required to sign off on major design decisions and API contracts and would take weeks to respond. On one instance an architect mandated a design pattern that wasn't supported by our enterprise tools and it caused weeks of issues. CI/CD was a constant pain. Getting new applications onboarded was a headache, enterprise portals rarely worked. Salary: If you're a talented engineer, you can do much much better. Leadership attempted to counter as I was on my way out the door until they heard my new offer. C1 has taken insufficient measures to stop the bleeding in the form of tech attrition. The CEO, Rich Fairbank, went on record saying Software Engineers were too expensive. Sorry Rich, I'll go somewhere that pays me what I'm worth - enjoy your contractors. Stacked Ranking: Stacked ranking is horrible. Managers went up to meetings to defend your rating and to get anything above Strong (Average) you basically had to have a ton of extracurriculars. Doing your job and doing it very well isn't good enough at Capital One. They expect you to be earning certifications, volunteering, conducting interviews, joining resource groups, etc. to "differentiate yourself" from your peers. It's all crap and probably a cost saving measure so they don't have to give too many people decent raises every year. Hybrid Work: People want fully remote work. There are antiquated managers who feel like things are "just better" in person but many many engineers want fully remote work or have left to get it. Nobody wants to go from the comfort of their home to having a commute, spending money on gas & vehicle, prep time before and after work, just to sit in a noisy open office environment where things are less productive. Products: A lot of C1 products I dealt with weren't engineered to a very high standard. Our pages are slow to load, don't look great, and are dwarfed by more established competition. I didn't feel proud to work on a product that felt was vastly inferior to the competition. Constant reorgs and lack of vision from leadership was a consistent hurdle.