Capital One

C1 is fully in the cloud (AWS), so you may get to work with the latest technologies. There are pockets that push for the highest standards for engineering. Most teams offer stress-free, low-hour work.

Regulation stifles innovation, and this is strongly felt at even more tech-driven banks like C1.

Typical pains of a large company.

Change management teams and cybersecurity teams have too much authority. Obviously, a lot of great folks are there, but quite a few incompetent ones as well, sadly. This leads to a lot of extra, redundant, and tedious work to avoid escalations with management. Getting exceptions often requires VP approval, and many managers are afraid of doing this, probably due to the authority of these regulatory teams at C1.

• Fight harder on exceptions with change management and security teams when the exception isn’t relevant to the service. Creating non-optimal systems as workarounds in lieu of true best practices is dangerous and can lead to outages in the name of security.

• There is a joke amongst engineers that to be a senior manager or above, you have to be an incompetent engineer. This is obviously unfair; however, too many managers have very high egos/assertiveness, which don't match their ability (technical/people skills). It’s okay not to know everything, but it’s unacceptable to not let your SMEs shine for the sake of a few extra minutes on the soapbox.