The hiring process at Capital One takes an average of 90 days when considering 1 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Senior AI Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 90 days), whereas Senior AI Engineer roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 90 days).
Very consistent and streamlined. The highlight was a 'Power Day' a single afternoon of consecutive interviews with engineers. The overall hiring timeline was very long asked about technical skills, system design, and cultural fit.
I interviewed at Capital One (Nottingham, England)
Interview
The interview process was quite long as all the candidates were together and then split into separate interviews. It was however clear and communicated well in advance so we knew what to expect.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were a lot of questions with scenarios such as what would you do, how would you prioritise etc.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Capital One in Feb 2026
Interview
applied for the role and received a call from recuiter confirming details about background(this role is a phd level role), after that got a mail from recuiter about the interview date, in the mail itself they had mapped me to initial project.
in the interview they had asked 12 questions regarding the project and they mostly revolve around inference parameters of llm's like how do they effect the performance and how do they affect the trajectories
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
asked 12 questions on inference working of llms' how different inference parameters effect the llms performance, no live coding mostly technical deep dive