Engineers, Dont work for this company - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Oct 25, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

The campus and atmosphere is very nice, but management is non existent

Cons

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

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5.0
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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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