Decent pay. Good WLB. Bad PIP culture. - Software Engineer, Senior Associate Capital One Employee Review

4.0
Jun 30, 2025
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Pros

Work life balance is really good in most cases. Pay is decent, but bad bonuses.

Cons

PIP culture is really bad and brings morale down. Causes a toxic culture due to stack ranking — which means that 8-15% of staff is to be fired every 6 months. As long as you’re doing your job and a little more you should be fine because slackers are easy to find, but makes being a good teammate tricky if your peer is at the same level.

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5.0
Jun 25, 2026
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Pros

Work life balance is great

Cons

Commute to work is awful

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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