Capital One

• Very cushy job, generally good WLB.
• Can meet some really talented engineers and mentors.
• Learn basic fundamentals of software engineering outside of just coding (e.g. DevOps, Cloud Architecture, inter-team cooperation, CICD).
• Decent name to have on resume; lots of recruiter outreach after your first couple of years.

• Pay is not competitive, and they appear to have no intentions of changing this.
• Stack ranking is more about your visibility to other managers than your technical contributions, unless they're high-profile projects.
• Depending on the team, you often have to work with extremely unskilled contractors and their non-maintainable code, a general lack of engineering craftsmanship/skill.
• Lots of corporate red tape plus useless initiatives.
• Engineering problems are trivial/braindead after you exit the "green" stage of your career.
• The "You Build You Own" philosophy is just a way to lower hiring costs – making engineers do all the testing, QA, SRE, etc.
• Horrible documentation of enterprise frameworks you are expected to use.

Reward employee loyalty and effort, rather than just who talks the most.