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I live in DC and friends who work for Capitol One call it "the Google of the east" because of putative tech savvy and innovation. Can anyone verify this claim

I live in DC and friends who work for Capitol One call it "the Google of the east" because of putative tech savvy and innovation. Can anyone verify this claim?

caslon 3y ago
It's not Google (Google isn't Google anymore), but if you search around for the winners of the intern competitions they hold every year, you'll find a surprising amount of intensely competent people who have done very interesting things in the years since.
whalesalad 3y ago
They do a fair amount of FP/Clojure inside Capital One afaik.
- mdaniel 3y ago
  FWIW, the majority of the recently updated repos seem to be Python https://github.com/orgs/capitalone/repositories?type=all https://github.com/orgs/capitalone/repositories?type=all
- datavirtue 3y ago
  You can also walk into a brand new project there that has business logic crammed into a towering, nested for/if spaghetti monster living forevermore in a spring controller method. True story. It just went into production.
blovescoffee 3y ago
I worked there for 1.5 years. There's lots of smart people. There's lots of people hiding in the bureaucracy of a large bank that get away with very little action. I haven't worked at Google so I can't comment on that. Overall it was a good experience but things moved very slow.
nkotov 3y ago
Red Ventures also calls itself "the Google of the east".
abadpoli 3y ago
They’re a bank that likes to pretend they’re a tech company. In some ways, they’re right: they embrace a lot of “hard tech”, are all-in on things like cloud, and definitely value engineering skills which shows through their well-regarded program for new engineers. However at the end of the day, they’re also still a bank and suffer from the same bureaucracy and politics that every other bank does.
- rangestransform 3y ago
  The first sentence made it sound like you were gonna go on a desudesudesu.io rant
  - Bjartr 3y ago
    Want to explain what that means for the uninitiated?
    - rangestransform 3y ago
      http://desudesudesu.io http://desudesudesu.io
__derek__ 3y ago
Lots of ex-Amazon directors and VPs, FWIW.
alephnerd 3y ago
I'd say so. I can't think of a similarly large company HQed out east with as large a tech presence. Lots of internal tools and projects have been OSSed or productionized like at Google as well
DANmode 3y ago
Do your friends spell it like that? Either way, funny.

I live in DC and friends who work for Capitol One call it "the Google of the east" because of putative tech savvy and innovation. Can anyone verify this claim?

caslon 3y ago

It's not Google (Google isn't Google anymore), but if you search around for the winners of the intern competitions they hold every year, you'll find a surprising amount of intensely competent people who have done very interesting things in the years since.

whalesalad 3y ago

They do a fair amount of FP/Clojure inside Capital One afaik.

mdaniel 3y ago
FWIW, the majority of the recently updated repos seem to be Python https://github.com/orgs/capitalone/repositories?type=all https://github.com/orgs/capitalone/repositories?type=all
datavirtue 3y ago
You can also walk into a brand new project there that has business logic crammed into a towering, nested for/if spaghetti monster living forevermore in a spring controller method. True story. It just went into production.

blovescoffee 3y ago

I worked there for 1.5 years. There's lots of smart people. There's lots of people hiding in the bureaucracy of a large bank that get away with very little action. I haven't worked at Google so I can't comment on that. Overall it was a good experience but things moved very slow.

nkotov 3y ago

Red Ventures also calls itself "the Google of the east".

abadpoli 3y ago

They’re a bank that likes to pretend they’re a tech company. In some ways, they’re right: they embrace a lot of “hard tech”, are all-in on things like cloud, and definitely value engineering skills which shows through their well-regarded program for new engineers. However at the end of the day, they’re also still a bank and suffer from the same bureaucracy and politics that every other bank does.

rangestransform 3y ago
The first sentence made it sound like you were gonna go on a desudesudesu.io rant
- Bjartr 3y ago
  Want to explain what that means for the uninitiated?
  - rangestransform 3y ago
    http://desudesudesu.io http://desudesudesu.io

__derek__ 3y ago

Lots of ex-Amazon directors and VPs, FWIW.

alephnerd 3y ago

I'd say so. I can't think of a similarly large company HQed out east with as large a tech presence. Lots of internal tools and projects have been OSSed or productionized like at Google as well

DANmode 3y ago

Do your friends spell it like that? Either way, funny.