Capital One Software Developer reviews

-Having a noisy open workspace, working less hours and having stickers on laptops doesn't make you a tech company. The job was advertised as a software engineer but ended up doing boring DevOps work, and when I needed to code I had to deal with undocumented spaghetti code(I was surprised to see this quality of code in a company like CapOne). There is no enforcement from tech leads to write clean code or provide documentation. I was surprised because the coding challenge in the interview process was written very professionally and included end to end testing. -You'll need to go through many procedures in order to make any change in production code. -You'll spend most of your time on endless time meetings. -The tasks you need to work on are not clear and you will waste your life looking for answers on what needs to be done. -Co-workers are not helpful and lazy - will take time to respond to you so you stop asking questions and won't respond at all after 3:30pm (because this is when some people stop working here). -Tech lead is incompetent and careless. If asked, wouldn't even know how to run the app which is the core functionality that the team manages. Man I miss coding.

Stack ranking is the worst. Because of it, some leadership prioritizes themselves over your wants and needs. Not every manager and director will do that, but the ones that do are incredibly toxic. When it's good, it's good, but when it's bad, it's really bad.