Cesspool - avoid at all costs - Senior Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
22 Aug 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You'll develop thick skin from navigating the toxic work environment. 401k match is pretty good too.

Cons

Management is extremely toxic. Some things I've seen from managers here: 1. Regularly bullying an underperforming employee (to the point of tears) until HR had to be involved 2. Shouting at an employee during a team standup for not completing enough Jira story points that sprint 3. Paging an employee who was out on vacation (seen this happen multiple times) 4. Pressuring employees to disable automated tests in order to meet a tight deadline, and then blaming the same employees for causing a production issue that was caught by those tests.

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5.0
10 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Note- last year there was 2018, would not allow that option. Employee engagement always high priority.

Cons

Note- last year there was 2018, would not allow that option. Highly focused on sales vs service.

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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