Working at Capital One Financial Corp

Great co-workers and diversity of projects to work on. Heavy emphasis on self development and keeping up to date with current trends in industry. Corporate level and down emphasis on team development and encouragement of giving back to community through various matching opportunities.

The culture is based around dog eat dog. People will get rewarded for being deferential to the managers and upper management above them and not for thinking for themselves. In fact it is highly discouraged to be innovative and thinking outside the box as you will likely clash with someone more important than you's opinion and that will put you on their bad side and they'll give you a bad review in the YE review stack ranking process. Work is heavily compartmentalized along functional silos and you are not allowed to have insight into each silos work, else you'll get on someone's bad side and they will give you a bad review in YE calibrations. Higher ups speak a lot about engineering excellence and DevOps ideals, but you are not allowed to do that, only "DevOps" is flowed top to bottom, it is not self-organizing. If you want to work in a highly bureaucratic environment, work here. Benefits are competitive, and good, though and that's why I gave two stars instead of 1.