Capital One Software Engineer interview questions

tl;dr: If you are an experienced and ambitious SW Eng, I wouldn't recommend this company. Long interview process with a low offer. Good for inexperienced hires or those looking for stable, long-term employment. --- CapOne recently changed their process so that you no longer interview with anyone from a hiring team. Instead, you now interview with a random set of employees, and if you pass, you are THEN offered to teams who you would potentially work with. Your salary tier is also determined up front. This is fine for new grads, but ridiculous for experienced engineers. Instead of being evaluated to the needs of the team you will actually end up on, you are being evaluated according to a generic question set. For four hours. 1. Tech screen on Hackerrank. <1hr. Easy questions. 2. The four hour gauntlet, split into 1 hour chunks, no breaks. Behavioral/personality, Case/scenario, Whiteboarding, and Tech concepts. 3. These four decide whether you pass/fail, and they also decide your salary. 4. Team managers are shown your profile, and then interview you for a final round before you get an offer. You will negotiate with a recruiter, but comp is pretty firm. Sign-on bonuses are available. --- This was a frustrating process, because it is difficult to sell your value to someone who you will never see again. Some are cold and robotic. Not convenient to set aside an entire afternoon for a single company. My process took two afternoons due to an issue with the interview prompts on their end. Ultimately, they liked me, but pinned me at a seniority level that is a lateral move for me. They are FIRM on this. Very disappointing. For context, I just received an offer from a different company that is 40% higher than CapOne's, so this assessment was especially weak.

Had the 3 part interview as described by other candidates. However, mine was conducted over zoom due to coronavirus. I got invited to this by applying very early online. Instead of white boarding problems, coding questions were on CodePair (a HackerRank environment). They did not give a set of test cases though. Instead I manually tested with a few examples and explained my solution’s runtimes. I struggled a bit but was always talking through my attempts. I received an offer a few days later. I greatly enjoyed everyone I interviewed with and the offer details were excellent. Overall, could not have asked for a better process.