I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in May 2025
Interview
Recruiter reached out after applying. Standard code signal online assessment with 4 questions. I was able to complete 2 successfully and about half way on the 3rd question time ran out.
Power day was typical as other comments.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a credit card processing system.
Design a banking system for coding.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Apr 2025
Interview
One online technical assessment involving algorithms. Then 4 interviews each 1-hour long.
Do not waste your time with this process. They do not know how to interview candidates or how to show some decency by at least paying attention during the interview. The process is very long, and if they decide you didn't "pass" one of the interviews, all 3 of your other interviews don't count either. For two of mine, the interviewers were distracted the whole time; I had to repeat my questions multiple times. I "passed" all but one, so I was declined.
Warning to all my skilled engineering colleagues out there, don't waste your time here.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical Assessment - 4 algorithms. Two array questions and one graph.
Tell me about a time you did not meet a deadline.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
I was cold called via an old resume. Rather than go into the resume the recruiter very apologetically told me that the first step was a code test. I normally don't accept those anymore at this point in my career, but she said it was 70min, but recommended I read the questions first and just skip it if I didn't like it. Lot of red flags when the recruiter seems to think the process is rubbish.
First question was word salad that took five minutes to read, but relatively easy. However, a bunch of tests failed requiring re-reading for a bunch of nuance. 20min gone. Second question was simply gibberish. Third was the most concise, but would also have taken twenty minutes to write. The fourth was mostly useless narrative and I didn't bother tying to figure out what the problem itself was.
It definitely seemed like a random grab bag of two-hour questions jammed into 70min.
Any company that gates their senior positions like this deserves what they get (cheaters).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One thousand words of boring narrative asking you to write a silly recursive function with poorly defined output requiring you to iterate for no reason.