Pros: Management is taking some steps in the right direction to become more technology-forward. Capital One also has the funds to move in that direction and has an overall good company vision. The overall work environment was also inviting and balanced.

Cons: Unfortunately, the implementation of the technology bank vision is poor. The company is wasting money hiring way too many engineers at a low bar. These engineers are then managed by non-technical managers for projects that are then randomly killed with poor leadership synchronization.

Pros: - Good salary for the area, although not good enough for the toxicity. - Decent tech/experience.

Cons: Talent is pretty mediocre. Some of the people are awful engineers, not very bright people, but as widely established, performance management is less about how good you are and more about politics. Performance management is a subjective mess twice a year. You will constantly worry about potentially not having a job in 3-4 months. You have to go through a 2-4 week review process for any changes you want to make. It’s an engineer’s nightmare come true, even for the most simple changes. "Eliminate arbitrary uniqueness." So let’s create 20 enterprise platforms that barely work, are non-deterministic, and make it where engineers are bottlenecked by the platform team as opposed to using open-sourced, widely adopted industry tools that people can find support for online. Nice job, tech leadership. What a stupid idea.

Pros: Pay and not a lot of work.

Cons: Boring, and you don't develop skills.