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).
On line assessment. Phone interview. Case study. Power Day. Long and tedious. Interviewer showed no interest. Think it was 3 interviews. Tell me about yourself. How did you hear about this position. Strength and weaknesses.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Chicago, IL) in Oct 2025
Interview
Standard codesignal, then powerday. Codesignal was low (398/600), but if you send enough emails to recruiters, you'll get the Powerday.
Powerday was 4 hours (1 hour break). Consisted of technical, behavioral, and case
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time you learned something new on your own
How do you work in a team
Talk about a time you challenged the status quo
Case was something about chatbots, just know general info about SWE and data
Technical was hashmap, array, and data heavy. Had to get the top k elements and use a heap for that.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Ciudad de Mexico) in Jul 2025
Interview
Fue un examen de código con 3 o 4 preguntas, algo facil, luego el powerday igual hubo live code callenges que diría una dificultad media, yo tuve un problema de comunicación porque me tocó con un indú que no le entendía muy bien, volveré a aplicar en unos meses
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Una prueba de pensamiento en un caso hipotético a la hora de crear un sistema bancario: seguridad, networking, infra, código