Capital One

Capital One marshals vast resources to make professional development available to its associates. This development takes the form of conferences, technical learning resources (aCloud Guru, Udemy, etc.), and opportunities to build and try new things.

They emphasize addressing unconscious bias in decision-making and fostering open leader/subordinate relationships within a culture of advancement.

Capital One targets paying higher than the regional median for tech talent and is aware of the current tight labor market, having made appropriate adjustments.

Their 401k matching is competitive.

Their health insurance plan is self-funded. This works well for associates because they have a large risk pool that skews healthier and younger, which keeps premiums low for very competitive coverage.

Large tech stack with a fair amount of duplication means it takes too long to build and deliver new systems.

Internal documentation is often difficult to find and is sometimes out of date.

Reliance on internal interfaces to gatekeep cloud deployment means that learning and using "X" cloud service at Capital One is not the same as learning and using "X" cloud service generally or elsewhere.

"Meeting Culture"

A company-wide effort to reduce time spent in meetings could be a big productivity boost in aggregate.