Capital One

Good pay for Engineer I and II.

Good benefits with cheap health care.

Free food (sometimes).

A lot of AWS experience gained.

• Having a noisy open workspace, working fewer hours, and having stickers on laptops doesn't make you a tech company.

The job was advertised as a software engineer but ended up being boring DevOps work. When I needed to code, I had to deal with undocumented spaghetti code (I was surprised to see this quality of code in a company like CapOne).

There is no enforcement from tech leads to write clean code or provide documentation. I was surprised because the coding challenge in the interview process was written very professionally and included end-to-end testing.

• You will need to go through many procedures in order to make any change in production code.

• You will spend most of your time in endless meetings.

• The tasks you need to work on are not clear, and you will waste your time looking for answers on what needs to be done.

• Co-workers are not helpful and lazy. They will take time to respond to you so you stop asking questions and won't respond at all after 3:30 p.m. (because this is when some people stop working here).

• The tech lead is incompetent and careless. If asked, they wouldn't even know how to run the app, which is the core functionality that the team manages.

Man, I miss coding.

Good programmers are not looking to work for fewer hours, but want to enjoy the work. Fix the process, enforce clean code quality, documentation, etc. Make sure the people on the team are happy and stop encouraging laziness.