I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Dec 2014
Interview
I was invited out to Richmond for the big super day. My interview process started at 11:30 and the first thing we did was go out to lunch with current employees that were close to our age. After that the interviews started.
1)Case Interview
As a computer science major I thought this was going to be the toughest part of the interview, but my case turned out to be surprisingly easy. There are no higher level math skills involved, it's basic algebra concepts. The best advice I have for you is to communicate. The interviewer will point you in the right direction if they know your thought process. Along with creating one variable equations, they had me read a graph.
2)Behavioral Interview
I had 3 question and they were all very common behavioral question. I finished my answers pretty early and was left with 15 min to just talk to the interviewer.
3)Job Fit Interview
This was the most difficult part of the interview for me. I honestly didn't expect it to be so technical. This interview is split into 2 parts: Technical questions and job fit questions.
I was asked 3 technical questions. The first one was to test if you knew basic computer science concepts. The other was a coding question on linked lists and the final question, which I had the most difficulty with asked me to design and sudo code a system.
For the actual job fit questions, they just ask you what you're interested in and why do you want to join their program.
Even though I wasn't accepted I thought this was one of the best interview experiences I've had so far. Capital One really tries to make their Interviewees feel welcome. The only thing that I thought was strange was that after my interview I was talking to someone who was applying for a full time position and we both had the exact same technical interview questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1)What's the difference between method overloading and method overriding?
2)Write a program to find the K-th to the end node in a linked list.
3)You are in charge of creating a car dealership website, what data structures would you use to design a search engine and how would you implement them?
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.