Culture has fallen off a cliff - Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
Sep 15, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

There WERE several pros to working at capital one: - good work life balance - strong family culture - modern technology - investment in associates - focus on using the latest and greatest tech - reasonably competitive salary for low stress

Cons

All of the above has been eroded except for maybe the high WLB. There is still not much to do, as a lot of leaderships focus is on using a chainsaw to cut a sandwich. Theres a lot of talk about generative AI and using LLM's, but the amount of engineering work is nonexistent. Additionally, most of the time is spent on compliance and forcing everything to fit a standard but bad structure. We are solving the wrong problem but very efficiently. I have always complained about the poor practices at capital one but sucked it up for the chill WLB, but recently after 4 years I got PIP'd for no good reason! Their bizarre performance management practices are suddenly throwing random people into a PIP and firing them! So now its just a bad engineering culture with none of the coasting benefits! AVOID

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Environment was good, food was decent, free food at my location (dont know if it was allowed but it was good)

Cons

The rittenhouse location is managed by a tyrant, he is an incredibly toxic man and upper management make it the most unbearable place to work. Andy will ask you to come in on days you're not scheduled, and then hold it over your head if you don't. Talks about employees behind their backs constantly. No respect enforced employees talked about each other all the time and there was even name calling in meetings, management did nothing. Worst place I've ever worked in my life frankly and affected my mental health in the worst way. Glad to be out out of there. The place itself has potential but the management at the Rittenhouse branch and above them is absolutely terrible in every regard.

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