Capital One Reviews

Pros

I've been at Capital for a few years now and my three favorite things about it are:

1. The culture - it's a work hard play hard, informal environment that centers around pushing associates to take full ownership of their space to drive value; there's also a big emphasis on career development, I've already played three different roles in my time here and I've always had the support and space to ramp up and learn.

2. The people - tied closely to the culture, this a big team who really rallies together for the sake of our customers; I've learned so much from my peers, team, managers, and leaders over the years: everything from tactical skills, to being an effective leader

3. The resiliency: the company has been growing a lot and with that comes a lot of change; the leadership team is not afraid to make bold transformations to meet the needs of the market and keep up with the industry; it's been a great experience being part of such big changes and watching them unfold over the years.

Pros

There are a lot
- great workplace with awesome people

Pros

Great casual business culture, relatively little overtime

Pros

Good benefits, salary and work-life balance

Advice to Management

Bringing in US leaders every two to five years is exhausting for Canadian associates.

Pros

flexible. and learn a lot new things

Pros

Collaborative and dynamic environment in Canada

Advice to Management

Think about the lack of brand presence in Canada!

Pros

- great pay
- great location
- great talented people
- great work life balance

Advice to Management

In addition to good pay and benefits, focus on creating a vision and strategy that teams can get behind and remove roadblocks so they can get the work done and innovate. Don’t just stand on the side line when morale is poor and send another survey but take no action to solve it.

Pros

Good benefit and pay package
Convenient location
Good work/life balance

Advice to Management

-Stop relying on the US teams to deliver anything. Try to have a vision and share it with your teams. -Enable your smart employees and find them opportunities to excel and do great job. Most of them are leaving and the ones inside are looking and hoping to leave.
-Allow your employees to have a choice and to voice freely their concerns without being bullied.
-Create work opportunities and projects for them if you want them to deliver something. It is unfair and absurd to blame your employees for not delivering enough if you don't give them things to do and if your incompetent product managers/owners are not interested in enhancing their outdated products resisting and rejecting any new idea.

Pros

- decent compensation
- good location of office
- piggy back on the good name the US side has made for themself.

Advice to Management

The reality is, this is a bank. Stop branding yourself as a tech anything. Your "Product Owners/Managers" are a joke, and will never cut it in a real tech/product company. Good developers and engineers, please stay away from this place. Your career will depend on who you suck up to, not solid tech skills or SDLC/Agile knowledge. Scrum Masters are a running joke, and get in the way of actually delivering anything. We don't know what they do all day. Upper management is a little country club, and anyone who goes against them will be pushed out and punished. This starts at the very top of the tech organization (you know who you are).

In summary, go work for a tech company. Let TD/RBC/CIBC/list some other bs, monopolistic bank rotate in here.

Pros

Lots of room for advancement.
Excellent work life balance.
Friendly team atmosphere.
Management values input from all employees.
Great benefits and pay stru8cture.

Advice to Management

Provide better career advancement opportunities and programs for internal candidates to apply and work their way into management roles,