I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Sep 2017
Interview
Applied through college, process took 6 weeks. Initially did not receive any call from them but after constant followups with the recruiter, finally ended up with an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Stacks, string question and case interview. Be prepared to ask a lot of questions on the problem you are given, especially the case interview you will be given very less information about the problem statement to solve.
Surprisingly manageable — the interview felt more like a conversation than an interrogation. It began with a sequence of coding questions, including one on merging overlapping intervals. The real challenge came during system design, where I had to outline a URL shortener service that could scale impressively. Interestingly, I had just looked at a similar architecture on PracHub, which helped me articulate my thoughts clearly. The technical questions wrapped up with validating a binary search tree, and I ended with a positive vibe. I received an offer, but ultimately chose to decline it.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Merge overlapping intervals from a list of time ranges
Interviewed for an engineer position, the interview was a joke. Asked basic OOP question with a few follow ups - no system design portion. Interviewer was very laid back and chill, didn't take it to seriously.
Was not too difficult. three total interviews all on the same day back to back. technical one, behavioral one and a case which was more of just a debugging question