MLEs Chase Their Own Tails (& Cry Themselves to Sleep) - Senior Machine Learning Engineer Capital One Employee Review

2.0
14 Mar 2024
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Pros

Strong enterprise DevOps infrastructure. Good for early careers (one to two years) out of college.

Cons

Here is the reality of being a machine learning engineer at C1, despite all the social media marketing: you are rebuilding a tool that readily exists in commercial and open-source projects, which no one else uses within the company, except the MLEs who are building it, in order to justify continuing to build it. At the end of the day, you are reproducing an overengineered solution, which is also (in-part) intended to remove the need for your role (and data scientists). Modeling experience is largely non-existent since your time is best spent reinventing the wheel, Furthermore, you are also going to end up in effectively the only MLE org within the company, which also has one of the worst happiness and management cultures within all of Capital One. Prepare to spend everyday working with mostly arrogant and unpleasant (to put it mildly) managers, who lack tech experience in many instances, while privately commiserating with coworkers in Slack. If you have experience elsewhere, you will be amazed to see such joyless teams.

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5.0
20 May 2026
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Pros

Capital One is a tech-first company. Most of the latest tech skills, tools, and practices are implemented. Most teams have interesting work where you learn and get to apply your skills.

Cons

Often, the new development work is assigned to the full-time employees. Access to many of the tools is also restricted to the FT employees

3.0
19 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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