I feel like I was bait and switched - Senior Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Apr 14, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

you could work here for the rest of your life

Cons

This place is absolute garbage. The culture is unbelievably toxic - people stopped addressing me in the 3rd person and just started addressing me in the 2nd person, e.g., "You will work 22 hours tomorrow" or "you will work 14 hours every saturday for the next 6 months, with no possiblity of vacation". The work life balance is non existent to say the least. I was promised I would be a software engineer and get to do what I love, but instead I'm just a janitor to work through these terrible internal processes and tools that are poorly defined and don't work 90% of the time. Literally everything I'm told to do is high priority fire drills that need to be resolved yesterday. This has been a complete waste of my life and is nothing but a red mark on my resume. I'm getting a raise with my next job, and cap 1 is even taking back my sign on bonus, so monetarily there's no reason to work here.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Good work life balance. Great benefits (dental, medical, other perks). Very tech forward for a financial institution

Cons

Culture could be better. For example, there could be a better effort to foster camaraderie outside of work hours

1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Environment was good, food was decent, free food at my location (dont know if it was allowed but it was good)

Cons

The rittenhouse location is managed by a tyrant, he is an incredibly toxic man and upper management make it the most unbearable place to work. Andy will ask you to come in on days you're not scheduled, and then hold it over your head if you don't. Talks about employees behind their backs constantly. No respect enforced employees talked about each other all the time and there was even name calling in meetings, management did nothing. Worst place I've ever worked in my life frankly and affected my mental health in the worst way. Glad to be out out of there. The place itself has potential but the management at the Rittenhouse branch and above them is absolutely terrible in every regard.

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