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 leadership's focus is on using a chainsaw to cut a sandwich. There's 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 it's just a bad engineering culture with none of the coasting benefits! AVOID.

Pros: Good mobility across different teams.

Cons: Bad work-life balance, toxic middle management, too much tribal knowledge needed.

Pros: Sometimes are very good for work-life balance.

Cons: The review process is not that good for some teams.