Capital One Software Developer reviews

The Seattle office is going through lots of changes but biggest changes are over

I was hired on through contract for 3 months contract to hire, after being on the job for a couple weeks the manager above my manager was let go. (Although I didn't meet him, I gather that he was a manager with drive that wanted to accomplish something) After that point three new full time employees were hired on the team, and the four existing contractors were let go. Capital One's management has no plan. They hire engineers, give them no products or requirements and assume they will innovate like a startup. Upon asking for requirements from management (whom aren't located in Plano) we were directed to a manager who didn't communicate with the team. (And were told not to waste his time by scheduling meetings with him) There were 5 people at the company that had been there longer than a year. Everyone was new and had little to no idea how things worked. Being a bank they rely heavily on "friend of friend" hiring, other than the penetration testing contractors that worked near us, no one really did any real work from what I could see