Pros
The cloud journey is new to a lot of people within Capital One which gives everyone a real opportunity to influence the direction of the company and the services being developed. This also leads into an environment in which personal learning and growth are positively encouraged, meaning there is a constant expectation that not only should you be growing as a Capital One employee, but as a individual as well. The offices are great, London especially is a brand new custom designed office, though the diagonal desk move in Nottingham take a bit of getting used to. Nottingham also provides a free gym and subsidised cafeteria and the food isn't half bad! There is a real diversity of people within the office, some of who are experts in cloud technologies, some are experts in platform specific development etc. which leads to a good collection of people working towards a common goal without a prescribed approach.
Cons
There does seems to be a clash between the Capital One culture in (old) Nottingham and the culture developing in (new) London. This does seem to be seeping into Nottingham slightly, which is showing itself in how things like performance reviews and progression are being managed. The vast majority of the Software Engineering senior management team (Director level) are in London where-as the majority of the Software Engineers are in Nottingham, again leading to a split in how some teams are managed and developed.