Capital One

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Some teams can be great at times, and you may learn a few things if you are lucky. A lot of your colleagues are not extremely qualified, so there's plenty of opportunity to mentor too.

As far as modern tech "open-space sweatshops" go, they have nice sit-stand desks and nice aesthetics. Some catered lunches are provided; the ones the business side pays for can be really good, but engineering is mostly fed pizza.

A lot of distractions exist; you can be busy for months without doing any actual work. Don't worry, as long as you make your senior manager look good, you will still get promoted!

The senior management team is great at manipulation and self-promotion; skills that allow them to recruit some good talent which, sometimes accidentally, can form good teams.

Don't expect those teams to last. You will soon find out that all work of substance is done by the US team.

Canada is playing catch-up; you will find yourself begging US teams to push a button for you, write tons of configuration, and maybe a line of code or two.

If a promotion comes, don't expect money. Pay is under market, but they pretend it's not.

Be careful who you trust. It's all cliques and in-groups, and the agile coaches are there to report your thoughts to managers.

Please stop recruiting smart engineers. You are wasting valuable engineering hours!