Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One (McLean, VA) en feb 2025
Entrevista
Efficient but longer interview process.
Leetcode-type code screen before talking to the recruiter. First 2 questions were softballs but the last two were pretty gnarly.
Recruiter interview was straight forward. He shopped my resume around and I had one hiring manager very interested.
Interviewed with the hiring manager which was a typical introduction interview. Went over experience and resume. Very casual and interesting. I got to learn about the potential role and team.
Power day involves interviewing with 4 people over several hours.
First interview was an OOP design kind of question. You got to choose your language and you used an online IDE. I'd say easy for a anyone who has built their own stuff. It needs to run and compile and you have the opportunity to go back if you get stuck on something and move ahead to the other requirements.
Second interview involved systems design and was a bit tougher. You can get lost in the weeds if you don't manage your time well. Expand as much as you can and talk over what your system can cover such as performance and other scaling considerations or limitations.
Third interview is a "Case Study" which I had no idea what it meant but mine involved walking through some business rules with a director and just working through some problems. Almost like a word problem but no math. Just ingesting requirements and walking through things.
Final interview is one that involves HR type questions such as how to handle conflict resolution and things you've done in your career. Probably my least favorite as it requires you to have things happen in your career that just may not have happened or you have to fabricate a story.
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Entrevista normal
Solicitud
Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One (Ciudad de México)
Entrevista
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.
Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One (Chicago, IL)
Entrevista
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").
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Create a library management system that supports various operations and keeps track of state
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One (McLean, VA) en mar 2026
Entrevista
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