Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One (New York, NY) en ene 2026
Entrevista
I applied through their application link. Their recruiter reached out, then these steps -
Assessment
Interview, panel style, virtual
5 interviews, each 1.5 hours (two tech, two behavior, one case study)
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Question 1 - given two number arrays, first array is price[], second is ratings[]. Return the index of max ratio of rating/price.
Question 2 - given an array of strings, check if a string starts and ends with an vowel, case insensitive. If so, reverse the middle string (excluding the start and end vowel), and return the modified array.
Question 3 - Given a matrix, with single digit positive integers and plus and minus signs only, only go top to bottom and left to right, return max evaluated number.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One
Entrevista
1st screening - coding did only 1 easy, 2 easy to medium didn't looked at 2 other problems but still got selected to powerday
power day - 2 behaviour, 1 coding, 1 case, 1 system design.
Overall interview questions and process is very easy. With proper preparation its easy to pass the interview. I didn't got the offer
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
case - determining rules for a virtual card
system design for a payment system.
Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One (Reston, VA) en feb 2025
Entrevista
Recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, power day interviews (2 behavioral, 1 system design, 1 coding, 1 case interview)
Red flag 1 - The titles at Capital One are inflated. Senior Engineering Manager role is more toward coding and being hands-on within a small team. No scope for managing multiple teams, mentoring, setting strategic vision and technology roadmap.
Red flag 2 - Cookie cutter interview templates which does not assess your skill sets.
Red flag 3 - Coding interview was set-up for failure, the assessment tool did not have IntelliSense, not allowed to check for syntax online while sharing screen. I did not understand the interviewer's logic to expect candidate to remember syntax and how it correlated to the candidate's abilities/skills. The problem was copy pasted on the solution file itself rather than presenting that as a separate panel. I had trouble scrolling back and forth.