Capital One

Work-life balance is good. Flexible 9-5 hours.

Compensation is okay.

Friendly people.

Work is very dull, not interesting, and filled with horrible corporate process and red tape. As a result, you won't be able to learn much as an engineer.

Engineers in London are not given the same support as their Nottingham counterparts.

Performance management is completely unfair. You are not rewarded on your technical ability and delivery but on how well you sell yourself to senior managers.

HR is very unhelpful, non-responsive, and their only interest is to protect the company.

Hiring is also very biased. Again, people who are all talk but no substance get hired, while actual talented engineers are not taken into consideration. This results in many hires having imposter syndrome.

Understand that if Capital One wants to behave like a tech company, it should start acting like one. Instead of focusing so much on office politics, start investing time on actually hiring and keeping talented engineers.