Great culture and competitive pay and benefits - Senior Associate Software Engineer Capital One Employee Review

5.0
Feb 23, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Continuous performance and career management - performance reviews on a 6-month cadence and career trajectory discussions in-between. Engineers can choose between People Leader and Individual Contributor tracks so they don't have to become a people leader to progress. Regular raises that accompany performance reviews above. Generous 401k matching - 3% automatic company contribution, 100% match for first 3% of your contribution, 50% match for next 3%. In total, 6% to get 7.5%. Health insurance options from Anthem with decent company premium contribution and $500/yr HSA/FSA employer contribution (+$500 for spouse on plan). Paid AWS certification (required for tech associates) and other training. Engineers have monthly "Invest in Yourself" days dedicated to training, not work. Stock purchase plan - Put up to 15% of each paycheck towards buying Capital One stock at a 15% discount. Immediately vests so you can either hold onto it for dividends or sell immediately to essentially boost your pay by 2.25%. Culture is great from top-down. CEO Rich Fairbank has a yearly all-associate "state of the union" that is very genuine, sincere, and informative. Regular fun team-building exercises, including cocktail- and dessert-making. Generous recognition "spot rewards" system that can be redeemed for some pretty cool, relevant, and useful rewards. Swag. So much swag.

Cons

New hybrid model, if you are <50 miles from an office you may be expected to come in at least sometimes. It's really a team-by-team basis, I'm full remote and would actually enjoy occasionally coming into an office again, but I know some people would consider this a con. Regular training around lots of compliance aspects of working in a fintech. Not the end of the world but it's definitely more than at other non-financial institutions.

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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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