I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Vienna, VA) in Dec 2016
Interview
Applied Online. The whole process took about a month, HR follow up call, Coding test followed by a phone screen and an onsite power day which consisted of 4 1-1 interviews. Two of them were technical while the others were behavioral(be prepared to write code in the behavioral rounds as well). The whole interview process was really good and very well organized.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Rolling Meadows, IL) in Nov 2016
Interview
The interview process started with a very professional approach but ended being unprofessional. Overall, the experience was good, but it could be better.
I was called by a recruiter for the position and after getting the details from me she forwarded it to capital one recruitment team and I got call after a week. Recruiter from capital one very smartly mentioned that I said I am willing to work in same or little higher salary range as I mentioned to initial recruiter which was not the case so be careful on that.
A telephonic round was scheduled after that, which was basics of Java and web services and went well, I got the call very same day to schedule face to face interview at the premises.
They have 4 rounds of interview 2 behavioral 1 skills assessment and one job fit.
Behavioral rounds are very easy and straight forward where I was asked about various situations and how I dealt with them and what was the outcome.
Technical rounds were the ones where I felt it was not up to the mark to assess anyone's skills. Even though I am currently working as senior developer and the position was same I was asked the questions which was not part of my skill set.
Job requirement as I was told was for someone who is well versed in java, spring, hibernate and web services but the questions I was asked in first technical round was mostly architectural and that is too out from my skill set.
The person who interviewed me for Job fit interview didn't seem to know web-services instead was just looking at the laptop as if he had list of questions which he was reading out.
in whole 1.5 hours of 2 technical rounds I was not asked even one single programming challenge or and design pattern challenge or any question which one can expect in technical interviews.
Asking what is the difference between hashmap and treemap is not something you would get asked in face to face interview for a senior java developer with 10 years of experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Although the role was for someone who knows and worked on spring, hibernate and web-services(Rest and SOAP). The questions I was asked were mostly from, non blocking algorithms , architectural design for large scale application using non blocking queue systems, pipe etc.
How hashmap works in java.
Recruiter found me online. And persuaded me to apply. I am generally good with algorithms (I use them literally everyday)
There was an online tech interview with three questions, 90minutes to complete them. Nothing too hard, very familiar questions.
I managed to complete them perfectly but for some reason I didn't advance to the next round.
PS: I've only posted the questions here because they are clearly looking for something more than the solutions, maybe coding style and other skills.