All they care about is finding 10x-ers from their college pipeline - Senior Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Mar 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

-great pay for a non-FAANG -access to all the latest tools -nice campus -genuinely smart coworkers that you can learn a lot from

Cons

-their model is to hire as many college grads as they can then burn through them in search of the handful of surviving 10x devs who will inherit entire products to maintain -if you're not a college hire you're a second class citizen -every 6 months you have to fight for your life as they lay off ~10% of the workforce -they're going all-in on AI, I have 4 different agents installed on my laptop right now and get in trouble if I don't use them for everything I do even when it doesn't make sense to -there's a huge focus on improving velocity above all else right now so nothing gets properly tested before it's jammed into prod -as a result of all of the above there are frequent 2am pager duty calls when the spaghetti we call software breaks and no one knows how to fix it because all the SMEs were either fired or quit

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5.0
Jun 28, 2026
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Pros

Great culture, supportive leadership, and meaningful creative work with opportunities to learn and grow.

Cons

There can be a learning curve due to the size of the organization and the number of internal tools and processes.

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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