I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Feb 2019
Interview
I submitted my application online and they got back to me via email within a month. They set up an in-person interview a week from sending me the email. The in-person interview includes 3 Interviews in one sitting, including a behavioral interview, a case interview, and a technical interview. The case interview was challenging but Capital One did offer all interviewees workshop and demo videos to help us study. Coding questions are fair. Need to know basic data structures.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a situation you have to explain a technical concept to a non-technical person.
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