Capital One

Work-Life Balance is Decent

• Career track is stagnant; expect to stay in the same role for five years plus.
• Tech stacks are custom, overly complicated wrappers around common AWS services.
• All the time you invest is learning their custom tech stack, which is non-transferable outside of the company.
• Expect to get screwed by their performance management.
• Hard work and going above and beyond the job description is rarely rewarded.
• Instead, what is rewarded is constant presentations to management in lieu of actual work.
• They have suffered VERY heavy attrition due to the above reasons, so expect to take on the work of two developers.
• Upper management is clueless and/or stubborn about performance management and is not adapting to the very obvious feedback from employees due to their leaving.