I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Oct 2016
Interview
I spoke with Capital One at my school's career fair. I got offered an onsite interview. They flew me out to Richmond the day before and I interviewed the next day. The onsite consists of three 45 minute rounds: job fit (technical), case study, behavioral. The technical interview was pretty easy (1 design question + 2 algorithm questions) and the behavioral portion was pretty standard as well. The case study kinda threw me off because I've never done a case study for a software position before, but the interviewers do a great job guiding you through the entire process. The case was very intuitive and it was mostly a test on your problem solving skills. I heard back with an offer 4 business days later.
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