I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Tysons Corner, VA) in May 2019
Interview
Disorganized. Poor communication. Hastily put-together. Every step of the way, HR mismanaged communication and expectations. Full-time staff had no idea why I had to fly out to an alternate location to do an interview for a position in a different city. Instead of eating lunch with me, a potential recruit, they left me eat by myself with a salad that was sitting out for hours.
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