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      Software Engineer Interview

      10 May 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      McLean, VA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in May 2019

      Interview

      5 - 1 on 1 interviews after they flew me out to interview. I was strongly recruited over my own objections that my experience wasn't the exact right match and that the cost of living was too high. This lead me to believe that this was some unicorn company that understood that developers can and do learn new programming languages (all the time)..they are not. So after wasting 2 days of my time flying out there they told me they decided they didn't need my skill set. Ummm, what? You aggressively pursued me. Also, my background is nearly the same as 2 of the interviewers before they came to work here. Capital One doesn't value the candidate's time at all. They claim to be a tech company first and bank 2nd (heard this 5 times ) but they don't know how to do a skype interview? 2 of the interviews were 'company fit', which to me is code for age/race discrimination. I don't think the hiring managers even read my resume before I came on site. Huge disconnect between their corporate recruiter and hiring managers. Not surprising that their recruiter worked in a different state than the hiring manager and their team. I sat in a tiny room for 6 hours while they paraded 5 people in to interview me. They took my lunch order by email before I got there. The secretary handed it to me to eat by myself in that same tiny room by myself during a 15 minute gap between interview 3 and 4. Red flags - no testing team, no BA's and developers must give 24 tech support to all of the code was sold as positive. Full stack developer apparently still means: we are too cheap to hire supporting roles so developers do everything.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me a time you had a difficult time with another employee. Tell me a time you saw a role that needed to be filled and filled it. Why do you want to leave your current job? Case interview was simple and partly irrelevant. Do you need to ask a software developer what the business needs are met by acquiring another company? I don't think so. The coding part was simple and I got to do it on paper instead of a white board, but I don't think it demonstrated any sort of ability or lack thereof.
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      Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Capital One

      Software Engineer Interview

      3 June 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Capital One

      Interview

      4 rounds of interview including coding , design , case study, behavioral after clearing the code signal assesment. Coding was medium hard of 2 questions each. case study and system design was difficult.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      focus on designing and case study
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      Software Engineer Interview

      20 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Capital One

      Interview

      This took a bit longer than expected, stretching over several weeks. The technical rounds were intense, featuring an LRU cache implementation and a problem on detecting duplicate transactions within a 60-second window. I was nervous at first, but it clicked for me when I realized I had practiced a similar approach on PracHub just days before. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive an offer in the end, but the experience was a solid learning opportunity. The behavioral questions felt straightforward, so I wish I had made a stronger impression in the technical segments.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Implement an LRU cache with get and put operating in O(1)
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      Question 2

      Given a stream of transactions, detect duplicates within a 60-second window
      Answer question

      Software Engineer Interview

      14 Apr 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Capital One

      Interview

      Un proceso largo, pero sin mucha complicación en el proceso. Empresa atenta en todo momento a dudas y disponibilidad de tiempo para las entrevistas. Exámenes con temas sencillos y complejos. Variedad en los ejercicios