Capital One reviews

5.0

100% would recommend to a friend

(13,175 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 13,175 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
Sep 22, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Most of the people I work with regularly are very good, both technically and as people - Very competitive salary and benefits - Generally good hybrid in-office culture. Special days for things like free breakfast, or various events and celebrations.

Cons

- Stack ranking with forced distributions creates unnecessary competition, and not in a good way. Also depresses associate morale on a larger scale. - Many practices that are more performative than substantive, in service of the "influence" competency. - For a company that claims to be a tech company, they are very stingy on the stock awards compared to other large tech companies. - Giving managers and Sr. managers more responsibility, without the support or resources to implement. - Constant reorgs and rebrandings, often during the same year, so you have no idea which organization you're working for.

1.0
Aug 20, 2025

Meat Grinder

Recommend
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Pros

Good tech stack with most infra details abstracted to pipeline configuration files. Overbearing amount of swag

Cons

Forced stack ranking creates a toxic competitive culture. Excessive re-orgs mean you're constantly trying to impress a new boss and not employed long if you get a bad one.

1.0
Aug 18, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Not the highest in the industry, but decent offer for first year join contingent on staying for a year.

Cons

Verbally abused as a newcomer because of "cultural differences." You are reminded constantly from day one that your job is at risk. The disposable attitude towards developers leads to most people owning apps that they do not understand, and fear of being fired prevents people from doing proper development. Knowledge transfer is minimal because bringing others to your level means your job is at risk. Stack ranking is to the detriment of the product and development experience. Teamwork is not promoted. Low innovation room on majority of teams. Required to be available off hours and over weekend in addition to normal on-call rotations. In office hours are required, but still you won't be working closely with your team.

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