I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
I was initially contacted by a former peer who now works at Capital One. The company was coming to my university's job fair, and so I applied online after he prompted me to do so, waited for a response, ended up getting an "alternative" interview status, so couldn't interview on campus. They flew me out a week later to Richmond where I was able to interview on-site and explore their campus to a degree. I liked the culture - it really is more like a tech company that just so happens to provide services in the banking industry. The attendants, engineers, and interviewers all make you feel comfortable throughout the experience.
The interviews comprised of three stages: 1) a case interview, which presents a business situation for which you must do some basic analysis and provide a recommendation at the end; 2) a behavioral interview asking questions in the form "tell me a time when you..."; and 3) a technical interview. I found the case interview to be extremely easy to logic your way through, and the behavioral interview was pretty typical / standard. You might want to have your resume at hand to remember some of the projects you've worked on, before the behavioral interview begins, it helps a lot.
The technical interview is the difficult part. If you don't understand Java and concepts in Java, you might be doomed. This includes some know-it-or-you-don't short-answer / free response questions. The majority of it, though, is a coding question where they'll give you a X data structure and ask you to implement Y method - it'll be in Java, but they'll ask you to implement it in whatever language you feel comfortable. But clearly you'll have an advantage if you know java.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
know your typical data structures -- hashtables / maps, linked lists, trees
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Oct 2020
Interview
All the interviews were scheduled for the same day.
There were three one hour interviews, all back-to-back:
Technical - leetcode style questions
Case - open ended business + tech question
Behavioral - "tell me about a time when..."
Felt like a well-rounded approach to interviewing - great experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical
Q: Edit array in-place, push null entries to end
Q: Check if a binary search is symmetric
Q: Design a stack with method getMin() in constant time
Case
C1 is acquiring ING, a completely virtual bank. What are the benefits of acquisition? What are our considerations for integrating the two banks?
Then look at some old if-then-else code, how can we integrate these statements with newer code?
Behavioral
(STAR Method)
Q: Tell me about a time you explained something technical to a non-technical person.
Q: Tell me about a time you learned something new to accomplish a goal.
Q: Tell me about the project you are most proud of.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One in Oct 2020
Interview
Had all 3 of my interviews in one day -- one case study, one behavioral, and one technical.
Case study was overall really simply, just make sure to ask a lot of questions
ask about their volunteer programs and stuff lol
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Oct 2017
Interview
First contacted me and arranged a phone screen, mostly talking about resume and behavioral questions. Then next interview was on location - all the interviewers were really nice, and everyone at the company was super friendly.