Bottom 10% of worst places to work - Principal Associate Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

1.0
Sep 19, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Nice people Pay is decent but not worth the headache Pays for AWS certs Free O'reilly subscription

Cons

Stack ranking encourages backstabbing between coworkers. Management is forced to play favorites and hire people as PIP fodder to keep the employees they'd like to keep Constant reorgs. You join a team under one manager and a couple months later you have a completely new manager. They will PIP you and later try to constantly rehire you as a contractor for less pay/benefits Lots of on-call makes for poor WLB requiring you to work weekends and late nights. Quarterly failover exercises which are done after hours so I hope you don't like sleeping. Generous severance but due to their incompetence they will miscalculate and once you think you are done with them they will come knocking on your door

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5.0
Jul 4, 2026
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Culture, WLB, Free Stuff, Building

Cons

Slow work environment, parking situation

1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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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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