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      Software Engineer Interview

      23 Oct 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Tysons Corner, VA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Capital One (Tysons Corner, VA) in Oct 2020

      Interview

      tl;dr: If you are an experienced and ambitious SW Eng, I wouldn't recommend this company. Long interview process with a low offer. Good for inexperienced hires or those looking for stable, long-term employment. --- CapOne recently changed their process so that you no longer interview with anyone from a hiring team. Instead, you now interview with a random set of employees, and if you pass, you are THEN offered to teams who you would potentially work with. Your salary tier is also determined up front. This is fine for new grads, but ridiculous for experienced engineers. Instead of being evaluated to the needs of the team you will actually end up on, you are being evaluated according to a generic question set. For four hours. 1. Tech screen on Hackerrank. <1hr. Easy questions. 2. The four hour gauntlet, split into 1 hour chunks, no breaks. Behavioral/personality, Case/scenario, Whiteboarding, and Tech concepts. 3. These four decide whether you pass/fail, and they also decide your salary. 4. Team managers are shown your profile, and then interview you for a final round before you get an offer. You will negotiate with a recruiter, but comp is pretty firm. Sign-on bonuses are available. --- This was a frustrating process, because it is difficult to sell your value to someone who you will never see again. Some are cold and robotic. Not convenient to set aside an entire afternoon for a single company. My process took two afternoons due to an issue with the interview prompts on their end. Ultimately, they liked me, but pinned me at a seniority level that is a lateral move for me. They are FIRM on this. Very disappointing. For context, I just received an offer from a different company that is 40% higher than CapOne's, so this assessment was especially weak.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Case/Scenario questions. 1/2 hr to answer. CapOne recently moved all their on-prem servers into the cloud. What are some challenges of this move? CapOne recently acquired an online-only bank. What are the challenges of this acquisition?
      1 Answer
      24

      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
      Answer question

      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)
      Answer question

      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