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      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      31 July 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Richmond, VA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in July 2019

      Interview

      I had a great experience with all interviewers except one. My first four interviews had some great technical conversations around the kind of problems that Capital one and Amazon (I work for Amazon) solve and what approaches work for the other. It did feel very welcoming and I felt like not only were they trying to judge if I would be a good fit, but they were genuinely interested and even excited to learn more about my project at Amazon/AWS. However my last interviewer was all about “Capital one is the best, we have unparalleled implementation of our DevOps” and so on. He only asked me about the technologies that he was working on (Docker, Postgresql, etc) these had no mention on my resume or even the job specification I applied to. When I told him, sorry I don’t have experience working on these, he quickly responded “Cant believe a company like Amazon doesn’t use docker”, “ Cant believe you didnt use PostGresql to solve this” I also got responses like a candidate at your level shouldn’t say no for whether or not you know this or that technology. In the ongoing interview he asked me to look through the job spec again and see if I thought I met those. I might not have met his expectations in which case it is okay for him to not hire me, but I couldn’t believe how he wouldn’t respect me or my company’s choices in technology and was so arrogant about it. It completely put me off.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Mostly design oriented questions and behavioral
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      Other Lead Software Engineer interview reviews for Capital One

      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      29 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Ciudad de Mexico
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Capital One (Ciudad de Mexico)

      Interview

      Estoy apenas recibiendo la propuesta de agenda para la entrevista, todo de una manera muy respetuosa y con mucha comunicación entre ambas partes, atendiendo cualquier incidencia que pueda darse, ajustes y entendimientos entre los participantes en la entrevista.

      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      23 Mar 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Chicago, IL
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Capital One (Chicago, IL)

      Interview

      First round: 4 questions on an automated coding platform. First two were relatively easy and last 2 were difficult. Would suggest not prematurely optimizing. Second round: 4 interviews on one day ("power day").

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Create a library management system that supports various operations and keeps track of state
      Answer question

      Lead Software Engineer Interview

      2 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      McLean, VA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Mar 2026

      Interview

      Extremely disappointed. TLDR: 2/4 interviewers didn't know their questions and didn't even know Python (it was a Python coding round). They asked to rewrite the code in pseudo code and rewrite it using their logic. Thus, waste of time on 2/3 questions without being able to jump to the next one. Another interviewer didn't know what a blob storage (s3) is and the the half of our system design round turned into SysDes 101 session where I explained the basics and he tried to show his interest (he didn't even look at the screen). And at the end the recruited tried to sell me the Senior offer (huge cut). No thanks