Bottom 10% of worst places to work - Principal Associate Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Sep 19, 2024
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Pros

Nice people Pay is decent but not worth the headache Pays for AWS certs Free O'reilly subscription

Cons

Stack ranking encourages backstabbing between coworkers. Management is forced to play favorites and hire people as PIP fodder to keep the employees they'd like to keep Constant reorgs. You join a team under one manager and a couple months later you have a completely new manager. They will PIP you and later try to constantly rehire you as a contractor for less pay/benefits Lots of on-call makes for poor WLB requiring you to work weekends and late nights. Quarterly failover exercises which are done after hours so I hope you don't like sleeping. Generous severance but due to their incompetence they will miscalculate and once you think you are done with them they will come knocking on your door

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5.0
Jun 19, 2026
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Pros

Good company values overall Great benefits Office was nice

Cons

Depends on department, but culture can be too competitive

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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