Capital One

• Pay is nice if you are being hired out of college.
• HSA is pretty nice.
• Stock Purchase Program. Stock is bought at the end of the month and can be sold once they hit your account.
• Work-life balance can be great, depending on the team.

• If you are experienced, you will be paid less than an entry-level college hire.
• The company will make you lazy. Coding is secondary here. You will only deal with AWS and buggy enterprise tools.
• The performance management process is absolutely horrendous. Stack ranking makes performance management a popularity contest. You need to know how to play office politics.
• There are no COL raises, only merit raises. They will only give non-merit-based raises to TDPs (entry-level college hires).
• Work-life balance can be horrible, depending on the team.
• Getting promotions is heavily dependent on the organization you get hired into.

Invest in your experienced hires.

Get rid of stack ranking.