Capital One Reviews

Pros

Great benefits. Lots of travel opportunity. Great for some (not for everyone)— especially for people avoiding their families or trying to have an affair. If you don't like your current team, you can often move to another one or relocate to another location. Great opportunity to learn new skills. Some of the leadership is inspiring. Nice workspaces for some.

Cons

Gender-biased, misguided, disorganized, competitive structure, reorgs frequent This place is trying to be a start-up with huge enterprise problems—it's awkward. Makes for a lot of wasted effort for people trying to get things done in an innovative way with business-side making the last judgment. Shiny object syndrome. Emphasis on PR moments over fixing real problems. Performance reviews lend to a gender- or personality-bias when it comes to promotions. Women and/or introverts often get the short end of the stick unless they have a great/shark managers. I've seen the most ineffective game-players get promoted over competent and effective peers who seemed to get punished for actually getting things done and not wasting their energy dick-swinging or taking unnecessary travel. In effect, a lot of the people promoted do not make for the best leadership. Bad management. Too many cooks in the kitchen with product or design, not enough project managers (or none at all). Constant reorganization is exhausting and disorienting. Nobody knows what's going on. Deflates spirit and doesn't help progress.

Advice to Management

Pay attention. Don't just spend money on diversity & inclusion training — really implement some change in the culture. Get organized. Lessen reorgs. Stop acquiring other companies before you can handle what you have. You are not a tech company or a start up, just face it. Just be a better company, spend the money on hiring better engineers instead of on business people from failed start-ups who don't know how to work effectively in enterprise environments.

Pros

Healthy competition, people are great to work with, great benefits, gym is a lot of fun

Cons

Moving up is made difficult by constant organizational changes, poor people managers staying in people management positions for too long, and performance not being weighed heavily enough. If you're the right person, leadership will look the other way on major development opportunities and continue to move you up; however, if you're the wrong person they will use those development opportunities to hold you back for years.

Advice to Management

See cons. Be more objective and honest when considering somebody's performance and accomplishments during calibrations.

Pros

Great place to learn modern industry skills Friendly people Good work-life balance

Cons

Capital One builds a ton of stuff in-house. Sometimes you miss out on industry-leading 3rd party tools because we've built an in-house solution that just doesn't quite hit the mark The career development opportunities can be unclear (in Wilmington). Feedback is not always great and performance calibration can feel arbitrary or surprising

Pros

Career Opportunities, health benefits and compensation

Cons

nothing so far. better than my previous jobs

Pros

Stable company that really seems to care about its employees.

Cons

It's trying to be a technology company, and is almost there, but still feels like a financial company wanting to be a tech company.

Advice to Management

Focusing more on technology will help the business in many ways including but not limited to security, fraud prevention, market competitiveness and customer offerings and satisfaction.

Pros

Benefits, Senior Management, Vacation plans, Work/life balance and Compensation

Cons

Building your career opportunities depends on the project you work.

Pros

Innovation freedom to try out new things great benefits 7.5 % 401 match

Cons

Year end performance review sucks bell curve which invite more politics within team because forcefully 20 % under performance for employees even though everyone doing par job to their level

Advice to Management

Change bell curve and let employee to meet individual goal for performance

Pros

Great Place To Work, freindly and good perks

Cons

Sometimes too Agile and driven by Product instead of allowing Tech to drive what nees to be done so lots of tech debt