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

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.

wheaties
It's organization debt or the difficulty of getting such a large organization to gather enough inertia to make a move.
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.
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.
faramarz
Also worth noting, Capital One recently bought the powerhouse design shop, Adaptive Path. I think they recognize the need for for better UX
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.
urda
What a quality Hacker News post.
plorkyeran
This is at least partially due to it being a bunch of different legacy systems from different companies. I have two completely separate accounts with Capital One (one from ING before they were bought out, and one for my Capital One credit card), with the same user name. I would hope that they're working on integrating the systems, but I can't imagine it being a simple task.
jhwhite
I'm in the same boat but my accounts are all integrated now. My car loan, credit card, 360 checking, and 360 savings.
Yawnoc2
It's worse than that. I have a Capital One credit card and a Capital One 360 (nee ING) savings account. They have seemingly completely separate logins, but changing the password for one changes the password for the other.
aaronchall
I get it, this link is important because it's really bad user experience to have so many sign-ins for a single bank. They need to unify this stuff, obviously.

Also: great title.