Capital One Senoir Software Engineer interview questions

Initial phone contact by HR, followed by online coding assessment via HackerRank. This part was very simple. I then was contacted by the lead engineer who gave another technical phone screen, and was invited onsite for an interview. The on-site interview consisted of 4 persons for one hour each: 1 behavioral interview, two whiteboarding interviews, and one other non-whiteboarding technical interview. The whiteboarding exercises were of average difficulty. My negative experience is that not once during these interviews did the interviewers point out any specifics in the code that was being written - they were not engaged in a dialogue, they were observers. The single vague reason for my rejection was that they needed a person with more experience, but I couldn't even get an answer if that meant years of experience or if there were certain skills I could improve on. I was encouraged to apply for other jobs at the company, but without a fair evaluation of my strengths and weaknesses from these observers, this is a waste of time.

The interview process started with a very professional approach but ended being unprofessional. Overall, the experience was good, but it could be better. I applied for a Mainframe Sr software engineer role in Feb 2016 for Chicago location. Initially, I got a call from the recruiter (the recruiter was just great!). She asked for a copy of my resume and a couple of basic job related questions. Then I got an email with an online assessment link. The exam was 12 multiple choice questions followed by 3 coding questions. After this, I received email from recruiter that I passed the exam and they want a telephonic interview. The telephonic interview was purely technical with questions based on past projects and some mainframe/cobol. After this, they scheduled a face to face round. They provided the airline tickets, hotel and a luxury cab. I must say that I was impressed till here. The interview day was not good. There were 4 rounds with different managers. They were all confused. 3 of them were not even mainframe engineers. They read questions from a printed sheet and recorded my answers in the same. each round was 45 mins long. Most of the questions were behavioral and only the last manager asked me technical ones. Two of them were not even aware of the position I applied for. I applied for a technical lead in development area position, but on the interview day, one of the managers told me that they are interviewing for production support. This was totally unprofessional. I said a big 'No' for support as I never worked in support and dont want either. They could have told this at the very beginning and I would not have wasted my time. My advice for the mainframe applicants - *********** Capital one is doing away with mainframe and most of the work they have is just production support***** (I got this info from current employees while eating my lunch in cafeteria)*********** Eventually, all mainframe will shut down in the company.