I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Capital One in Jun 2019
Interview
Don't trust the recruiters. If they reach out to you, don't. They will jeopardize any of your opportunities in applying at Capital One again, regardless of the city. They will lie to you about the coding challenges only taking about 30 minutes to complete. It takes much longer than that. They will lie to you about wanting to keep your information on file for other opportunities if they don't proceed further. Apply on your own, don't use them if they reach out. It's just a trap to fill their quota, so they can get paid. They are not looking for the best. They are looking for anyone to exploit to meet their quota and hinder any future potential opportunities.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your agile methodology like at your current position
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