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.

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.

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.

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

Do your friends spell it like that?

Either way, funny.

Lots of ex-Amazon directors and VPs, FWIW.

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

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