Be aware what are you getting involved with - Senior Principal Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
16 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

One of the most advanced tech stock, on paper. When it build pipeline works, it is great. However, when it breaks it is no fun. As an engineer you have neither visibility or access int what is actually wrong and it will take some time to get it back in order.

Cons

Willingness of management to throw employees under a bus. Principal level associates are judged on how many projects they deliver during performance evaluation period. If you were not given any projects because there is nothing to work on, it will be taken against you and not against your manger for not giving you work. While you are expected to ask people in other teams for extra work, thus expanding your "brand" you are not going to be working on anything really significant that way. Absolute favoritism toward people who are being loved by managers. Those individuals can't do anything wrong, Yet, more than once during my tenure I had to cleanup their "mess". Very unusual way how annual and mid year employee performance evaluation is being done. If you end up in so called PIP, that is pretty much the end of you. Design of that process is basically to fire you at the end, but get 3 months of high quality work out of you. They will constantly change rules during that process, assuring that you will fail and look incompetent. However, you are under delusional concept that you will end up having your job at the end, as long as you get everything done. It is not like that: They get your work and you get fired. Whole organizational level problem is that unless you are one of the senior manger, who appear to be unteachable, on long enough timeline, with very few exceptions, you will either get fired, or perhaps leave on your own terms (if lucky).

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5.0
20 Jun 2026
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Pros

Work life balance is a plus here

Cons

Up to you to find opportunities to push yourself

3.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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