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
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Nov 2018
Interview
I arrived on site and they gave a tour of the building and I ate lunch in a group of about 15 applicants and 4 employees. I then have three interviews. A behavioral, job fit (technical), and case interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where you taught a technical concept to a person with little or no knowledge of the field.
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