I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Capital One (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2017
Interview
Applied online for a position in Seattle, got a response from a recruiter that a hiring manager will be calling for a 30 mins technical interview related to my professional experience. I followed the DevExchange engineering blog by CapitalOne developers and was excited to talk about some of the challenging problems I had solved related to their domain. I looked up hiring manager's profile and he seems to be around technology for a long time and he also worked as a tech lead at a software giant before joining Capital one, naturally I had high expectations on the depth of problem we were going to solve. So, here's how the call went:
"Hello, I have X number of questions that I'm just going to read" and he just did that, no introductions, nothing about the opportunity or team. All very basic class vs interface type questions, JavaScript, AWS and SQL questions. I think I answered about 90% of them and try to explain why I don't remember some of the answers on top of my head. I guess he was expecting 100% exact answers that he was looking for.
I was hoping he would at least be professional and leave some time for answering any questions that I had about product, company, technology, etc.. but nope just said Good Bye and hung up. Not sure how he went on to become a manager, may be I'm missing something here but I'm glad I wasn't selected to next rounds to waste each other's time.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Capital One (Vienna, VA) in Aug 2014
Interview
online exam followed by phone screen and four face to face interviews. the interviews include technical and behavioral. The questions involve deep dive of the topics mentioned in the resume
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Jun 2017
Interview
it was first telephonic for an hour, followed by onsite interview.
Onsite interview includes 2 behavioral rounds and 2 technical rounds.
behavioral round focuses on a multiple questions on work challenge from the past, how you deal with it (action), what difference it made (result)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
sample behavioral questions include
technical hurdle you faced, how you overcame it?
differences with your peer/manager, how it was sorted out etc.
technical interview was focused on latest continuous integration, cloud, multi threading etc.