Dishonest Management and lots of lies and betrayals - Principal Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Dec 27, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A few great Co-Workers (others just stab you in the back) Some great technologies you can learn for a short-term

Cons

1. Lots of Stress 2. No work/life balance 3. You should be your manager's pet!!! 4. Lots of talk about company's culture but nothing in fact, what you hear is not true and what management ask you to do you should NOT do (such as be vocal, do the right thing, speak up and etc...) 5. Lots of betrayals, in fact, Capital One encourages this kind of behavior 6. Performance reviews are done based on your commit's amount! (lots of experienced people, are overusing this by creating a huge amount of fake commits and contributions) 7. Support for other OS's such as Linux or windows is a lie, only OSX is supported for development 8. Huge dependency on US team, most of the time you can't even contribute, change or deploy codes without US's approvals 9. Lots of delays in review processes from the US side 10. Management has their own favorite people in teams and they lesson only to them while they are talking about the flat team structure 11. There is a huge difference between Senior and Principal Rule and Capital One’s HR team can trick you with it - don't fall into this, renegotiate your salary if they change your title just before your start date, and expect that leads will expect a lot more from you when you are a "Principal" (And don’t expect that someone will explain this to you on the first day) 12. Lots of micromanagement - they count your breaks and they ask you to take fewer breaks - but at the same time, they expect you to be on call 24/7! 13. Canada's Software studio tend to follow the US almost everywhere, lots of in-house frameworks(built in the US) on top of famous frameworks which prevent you from gaining some fundamental knowledge

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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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