I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Capital One (New York, NY) in Mar 2024
Interview
Scheduled an initial phone screen. The recruiter called me several days prior to the scheduled day, without warning. Asked if I can reschedule the interview or have the interview now if I am available. For whatever reason I obliged to do it right away. She didn't give any details about the role at all, runs through a checklist of questions already answered on the application, then utterly dismisses me as a QA without allowing me to elaborate on my experience whatsoever. Probably my worst ever experience with a phone screen.
Pretty typical of SWE interviews. Mix of leetcode easies/ mediums, with a semi-system design round (not quite sys design but similar). Behavioral questions seems important to do well in and be prepared for.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Capital One in Mar 2024
Interview
It's a long 4 hours "power" interview as they call it. It has architectural part, coding part, some kind of "business question" part (where a software engineer could be asked mostly irrelevant mind boggling questions about calculating profit, making marketing suggestion etc) and behavioral part. I felt like I fell short on first 3 parts. I am not good at quickly-code-me-solution-while-i-watch type thing or "find the bug in 20 20-liners given 1 minute for each". Architectural interviews are always open ended meaning they are not about coming up with a good architectural solution but rather meeting your interviewer's version of truth. So you have to use your divination and interrogation skills to figure it from your interviewer. Needless to say I was exhausted from the tension and incessant 4 hour speaking. They throw you a 30 minutes bathroom break as a bonus, but it's not felt much like a break. This was my second attempt with CapitalOne and I don't think there will be the third one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There were many questions. I vaguely remember one about a cost of software upgrade based on some periodicity: year vs 6 months. It had to be calculated.