I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Jun 2024
Interview
Interview process is exactly how others have described it here. Two Technical Interviews, one case interview and one behavioral interview. Technical interviews should be pretty simple and easy for most as one is a code test and the other being just some system design questions. I suppose the case interview was the only reason I didn't get an offer because I did extremely well on the other 3 of the 4. I had prepared well for the case interview but unfortunately my interviewer was really just a bad interviewer. Not enthusiastic, didn't explain clearly what the problem was or what I was supposed to be doing, and didn't give any helpful feedback when I asked for clarification (they tell you to ask questions). I'm about 100% sure that he was the reason I wasn't given an offer. So just fair warning be prepared for these types of interviewers and keep your expectations low because they might be being patricularly picky at this moment in time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a high level architecture for an application that handles user bank accounts and transfers
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Boston, MA) in May 2024
Interview
The first interview is a recruiter call (20-30mins). I did not get many questions about my past experience. Most of the call was focused on the role and interview process. The recruiter was really nice and attentive.
Next step was a coding assessment on CodeSignal. I had been practicing leetcode questions for a few weeks, so questions were as expected. Lots of posts regarding that on reddit. 4 questions, 70 mins: 1 and 2 are similar to leetcode easys, 3 and 4 are more like leetcode mediums. 3 is usually a matrix question. I fully got questions 1, 2, 3, and got half the test cases correct on question 4. You can run the test cases as many times as you'd like -- you will only be able to see some of the test cases, and can make your own custom ones. You can also skip around between questions, it will always keep your highest score per question. I got ~520/600.
Recruiter contacted me same day to ask to schedule a call to talk through the next step (power day).
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX) in Apr 2024
Interview
Call from recruiter
Coding challenge
- I got the first two questions entirely correct
- Skipped 3rd
- Got 4th question correct but not efficient enough for full credit
- Ended with 740 score
Power Day:
- Very easy coding questions for explicit coding interview
- System Interview design was very very abstract, a little different than what I was expecting but I do not think this was my downfall
- Behavioral Interview was fairly standard. I'd recommend trying to use the whiteboard to explain concepts easier for work done in the past.
- Case Interview was not what I expected at all. This is really more of an additional coding evaluation in disguise. The case they give you is very straightforward with a predictable outcome. However, the code you look at afterwards has some errors. I did not fix the errors in time so I believe this hurt my chances a lot. The errors in the code were logical, not syntax related, like doing multiplication on negative numbers when that shouldn't be allowed logically due to the scenario.
I ultimately got downgraded to level 2 and the salary discussed did not make sense for my situation however after attempting to reach out for further details to my recruiter I did not get a response.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral: Name a time you have had to rapidly change priorities in a project.