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3.0
Nov 21, 2019

Was Great, not Anymore

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Pros

1. Good Work life balance 2. Good Pay 3. Benefits 4. Perks 5. Good Teams 6. Good learning opportunities - sometimes you will be without any work for few months altogether, that gives you ample time to skill up, though there will be no opportunities to work on what you learn

Cons

1. Constant Re-Orgs 2. Lack of clear direction from leadership 3. People with technical skills are not rewarded, people with social skills skyrocket in their career 4. Lack of good technical intents, be prepared to sit idle most of the time until leadership tries to get intent (am a java dev, but last year i did manual testing for most part and 0 API or microservice work) 5. Layoffs here and there, and no clear career path direction (all API teams were converted to mobile teams in chicago downtown, by teaching android and IOS development - you have 6 years of technical experience in one area, so what?? start from 0 now) 6. Poor performance management - criteria for this changes every year - if you can speak well and show off others work as yours - this is the best place to be.

1.0
Nov 7, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Good work/life balance. - Great office and equipment. - Regular fully-expensed trips to Nottingham.

Cons

Upon joining you quickly become mired in endless planning and scrum ceremonies, bookended by talks on numerous corporate initiatives. Unworkable requirements are simply passed to teams from stakeholders in Nottingham who have remarkably little understanding of the teams in London. Inexperienced managers must then wrestle with these to try and eke out deliverables for stakeholders wedded to unrealistic deadlines. The graduate scheme is large and there are a limited number of developers able to support them in their development, adding additional pressure on teams. If you’re looking to grow as a developer I would simply avoid working here. Although Capital One does have good initiatives for learning and development, these can’t make up for the total lack of time spent actually building software.

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1.0
Nov 4, 2019

Tons of discrimination - Namely Age Discrimination

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Pros

Zero! There aren’t any good things about this problem.

Cons

They cycle through people and don’t like older workforce. They only want young young people working for them. Have two friends who were also downsize due to age. There’s laws against age discrimination but because they do this such a clandestine way (even though we all know they do it) the government never gets a complaint.

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