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Not that I would forget about the wonderful team I left at #CapitalOne, the Purple Pandas, but my leaving gifts are going to remind me of them every day 💜 And thanks to everyone who chipped in for them, it's very appreciated!

I had the pleasure of starting a team together with Shama last September, and the year we worked together was really great.

Shama has been a a really great person to work with, and for. She's helped shape me into a much better engineer, technical lead, mentor and team player.

Something that came up in a quarterly survey would be "does your manager inspire you to do your best work", to which I always answered yes for Shama - she's always helped me believe more in what we're doing, striving to leave things much better than when we found them, and coaching me to achieve my best.

One thing I commented on a number of times over the year working with her, is Shama's pragmatism. Shama's alwaws happy to do the right thing - making the best efforts to clean up a project before starting, making sure we're following best practices - but is also happy to ask questions of i.e. whether it makes sense to spend an extra half day doing some style improvements for a PR's code before it ships to production, or follow-up once it's on its way. It's been really helpful making sure we stay on track at times, and has helped with a number of cross-team working pieces too.

We've recently worked on a very difficult piece of work on some pre-loved software that spans multiple teams, and Shama was awesome - she got stuck in, digging to the bottom of problems, managing the situation really well, and was pivotal with getting us across to the other side!

And mostly, she's been proactive in providing the right feedback, nudging me, and giving me opportunities to grow myself. I've found it to be a great way of helping me focus on ensuring that I can support junior engineers better by being less involved in work, but jumping in when folks needed/wanted my help.

I'm going to miss working with her, and I'd thoroughly recommend others get the chance to work with her. Thanks for a great year together!

Things like this are why I'm going to miss my #LifeAtCapitalOne - getting a care package in the mail with some super yummy brownies! Really nice to have culture of appreciation ♥

First day back at #CapitalOne's offices in Nottingham after a whopping 545 days is a very weird feeling. Got some freebies, a free breakfast, and our first hybrid standup. Been nice to just wave to people, and I'm looking forward to making the most of the day!

Yeah it's not the best 😥 I can't remember if I've ever fed back to the team about it, but I'll make sure to drop them a message

Sure - our jobs site at https://jobs.capitalone.co.uk ☺

Yup, agreed. I guess it depends too on the bottom line and what a cost implication it has, as well as maybe not being as "good" a referral if it's not as close to real word of mouth?

This is also the way my company changed our referral scheme and it makes it a bit more awkward because you have to actively ask for someone's details to refer them, whereas before you got it through folks following the link, which feels less invasive to me

With all the excitement of the #NewHouse, I'd missed this #Christmas hamper from work - what a lovely reminder of #LifeAtCapitalOne and the wonderful ways we're looked after - in addition to the £100 M&S voucher I won last week!

I found out that even when doing talks independently, I should've got my work to review them, and was like huh 🤷🏽‍♂️

I've just received a (somewhat) surprise present from work for my promotion! Yet another lovely insight into the awesome folks who make #LifeAtCapitalOne special

Here's a lovely insight into #LifeAtCapitalOne - my whole tribe (the Grow tribe) have just received a lovely care package from the wonderful Team Building Committee, in lieu of an in-person "fun day". Small things like this make it such a lovely place to work 💜

#Morph is settled in and really enjoying the #LifeAtCapitalOne (remote) summer party with Anna Dodson and I this evening

Currently enjoying an opt-in #mindfulness session with the rest of the company - some good tips to help us cope better with everything going on right now, and nice to have continued investment in myself and my colleagues #LifeAtCapitalOne

As @MrAndrew mentioned at #TechNott, @CapitalOneUK are hiring! Come have a chat about #LifeAtCapitalOne - we've got Software Development, Software Testing, Infrastructure Engineering, Management, Cyber Security and more at https://jobs.capitalone.co.uk

There certainly are a few #CapitalOne folks here at #TechNott, even though you can't see me waving behind the pillar. Come say hi to talk about some of the jobs we've got at https://jobs.capitalone.co.uk/