I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Capital One in Feb 2021
Interview
1.) Recruiter inbound message via LI leading to phone screen w/recruiter - basic screen, friendly and informative. C1 is wide open in terms of what you want to do, specific tech stack exp is less important vs. overall engineering proficiency
2.) Online code assessment assignment - 2 coding questions through HackerRank, give you plenty of time to complete them in whichever language you prefer - Can't disclose but they're equivalent to LC Mediums
3.) Live 4hr virtual zoom interview (1 coding, 1 arch system design, 1 behavioral, and 1 code analysis exercise) - large emphasis on arch expertise (i.e. scaling, fault-tolerance, etc.), culture fit, and reasoning
4.) After "recommendation" you meet with several engineering managers where they pitch their teams and initiatives to you to determine mutual fit
Overall, it was a lengthy process (took several weeks to complete), but it was one of the best interview processes I've been apart of. I actually felt like I was involved in the hiring process and that C1 interviewers didn't just search some generic/trivial LC problems to work on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
-2 Sum variant
-Build a SaaS-based management system
-Look at this code, what's wrong with it (provided sloppy code sample to fix and justify why it should be fixed)
-Tell me about a time when [event] happened, how did you handle it...
Power day style interview, two coding, one system design, one behavioral. Everyone was nice, but the interviewers seemed a little under prepared and/or new to interviewing in general. Questions where essentially leetcode medium/hard almost word for word.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leetcode Count primes, looking for optimal solution
Code assessment then to power day interview with 4 rounds. Overall the power day interviews were okay except for the case study. The interviewer was disengage while being on their phone the whole time. There was a part where the interviewer said fix the mistakes then went back to their phone. I pointed out their code has other errors with template and was ignored. Then while attempting to fix those (10 mins later) they mentioned to ignore that part and focus on the very bottom part of the code. What a waste of time and very unprofessional. This makes me wager a few of the interviewers probably could not pass their own interview process today.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code signal 4 questions. Power day is one coding question, system design, case study and behavioral.
I applied through other source. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Capital One (Ciudad de Mexico) in May 2026
Interview
Excelente code challenge después de eso, preparaciones para un powerday q es básicamente 4 entrevistas técnicas en un solo día, es de 1 hora cada uno y al final de dicen si queda o no