Pros: An amazing environment that shows a great balance between excellence and delivery. You learn so much, especially as a Graduate, and you get the best support possible to help you progress your career. You will work on life-changing projects and get the opportunity to really make your mark in the financial industry.

Cons: Flexible working hours make me lazier. Too close to good pubs.

Pros: Good pay, generous sign-on bonus, and severance pay. Flexible hybrid in-office, though it seems to be slowly tightening.

Cons: They're trying to be a tech company, but instead, they make a lot of things unnecessarily complex and use in-house tools that you'll never see outside the company. It was very frustrating trying to diagnose problems with all the extra layers to get through. I liked my time at Capital One, though, and was a little surprised when my boss, after having bi-weekly one-on-one meetings giving positive feedback, told me during mid-year reviews that I was being put on a PIP due to something that took me too long to work on six months ago. What? Why was this never discussed before in our one-on-one meetings? I don't think anyone would dispute that I was very loud and clear during daily standups about issues I was having while working on that project and how I was solving them or which team I was reaching out to. I did more research and learned about stacked ranking and Capital One's policy of firing the "lowest" ranked 10-15% every half year. So, watch out. Even when everything is fine and you're consistently delivering on all your projects, being arbitrarily ranked lowest will still require that you or someone else on your team who did nothing wrong will be fired.

Pros: Great environment. Great pay. Great opportunity for upward mobility.

Cons: Lots of bureaucracy, which can be painful at times.