I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Oct 2016
Interview
Applied online, and contacted by campus recruiter. Was set up with a day of interviews (one of each: behavioral, technical, and case). Behavior questions were very standard teamwork questions. Technical interview included how to implement a messaging system, reverse a linked list, etc. Technical interview was done on paper, and you could choose which language to write in (syntax did not have to be perfect, they mainly cared about your thought process and algorithm). Case interview was mostly dealing with numbers and finding out if a product was producing revenue. Received a call back within a week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time you encountered a problem with a team project, and how did you handle it?
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