[bosco]

This is what happens when no one wants to work in technology at old outdate financial services firm.

[aaronbrethorst]

Your statement doesn't make any sense. A quick search of LinkedIn shows:

    2,798 results for capital one software engineer

It's a company with a $50bn market cap, and ostensibly stable 9-5 employment. This is more of a symptom of having a ton of different products where people weren't interested or weren't able to create a unified login system.

Chalk it up to 'bad' engineering practices if you want, but not that there's no one to work at these companies.

[UmDieWelt]

You realize people take jobs at companies they don't want to work for all the time, right? So your statement is the one that doesn't make any sense.

[faramarz]

Also worth noting, Capital One recently bought the powerhouse design shop, Adaptive Path. I think they recognize the need for for better UX

[wheaties]

It's organization debt or the difficulty of getting such a large organization to gather enough inertia to make a move.

[baddox]

I don't even think it's bad engineering practice. It seems like rather reasonable and efficient UI.

[aaronbrethorst]

12+ separate logins is, imho, neither reasonable nor efficient.

[tomasien]

This is so, so very wrong - Capital One is crawling with software engineers, they're considered way ahead of most other FIs with what they're doing. The history of Capital One is why this happened - it has acquired so many things and grown horizontally so quickly that they're struggling to catch up.

[Mithaldu]

I don't get it.

[gruez]

there are 16 different sign in pages for consumer products alone.

[eli]

And therefore...?

[rsl7]

it bothers the minimalists

[andyidsinga]

yep. I rather like it -- all in one page - just scan the page. not 6 levels deep of menus and clicking.

I suppose they could have a single drop-down box and a login button.

[aaronchall]

really bad UX?