Capital One

You get to work with smart individuals without worrying about defense contracts in the NOVA area.

Rehydrating clusters to stay compliant with financial regulations is a burden when the onus is on a small team across large tech stacks.

"You build it, you own it" is a great philosophy for startups ready to take on the world, with the risk of failure. However, at a financial enterprise, there are too many pitfalls and mandates to reasonably follow.

Pick a tech stack and develop a true 5-year vision without compromising engineering time. Pick an architectural visionary and follow that lead instead of massively changing out infrastructure every year.

Also, why would you let a manager who was removed from a team for poor fit review the aforementioned team in a year-end review?