Get ready to drink the kool-aid - Anonymous employee Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Mar 8, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Great compensation and benefits package (therapist coverage went up to $3000 this year!). - Some managers are very invested in your development and learning. - Lots of friendly and smart people, the open culture makes it easy to work with each other and make friends.

Cons

- Your experience varies GREATLY depending on your manager, there are some truly useless managers that somehow continue to get promoted into more senior roles. Lots of nepotism and favouritism exhibited by senior leaders. - HR has no idea how to proactively ensure fairness; certain groups are given random competitive salary increases while others are left behind. Significant salary gaps between job families. - Nothing exciting happening in Canada, very difficult to get things done if you do have good ideas. Leadership tries to get you excited about the future by rolling out a brand strategy that is unrealistic and won't change anything, or by saying they have aspirations to grow but with no specifics on how. - Extremely high turnover (at least 50% of the people you started with will be gone within 2 years) yet leadership refuses to acknowledge the problem and make changes that results in higher morale and happiness.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Some of the smartest individuals in their fields. The focus is always “forward” and the company is willing to adopt new tech to stay ahead for the purposes of the company’s (key word there) benefit. Great PTO and benefits.

Cons

The company’s drive to keep itself moving forward has caused it to regress in other aspects. As a leading tech company first, and leading bank second, it’s embarrassing what their stance is on hybrid and remote work. The company can easily accommodate remote options for their employees not near main offices, but chooses not to. I am relocating to a major city with no major CapOne presence and their response was “too bad, either fly up weekly or you’ll be terminated for not meeting the hybrid requirements”. It’s embarrassing because most of my week is remote anyways. I wonder how many current and past employees have been impacted, and I’m worried about how much talent they’ll be pushing away in the coming years.

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