SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Capital One with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 88% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 26 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Capital One overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Capital One as a SWE Intern according to 26 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
Background check: 10%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Apr 2025
Interview
Interview process was organized and chill. I first had a quick recruiter call, then it was a code signal GCA. I believe you do not need a perfect score on the exam (atleast I didn't), but I do know getting a better score helps a lot. Then they have a Virtual Job Tryout which is an online assessment where you answer personal questions and they see if it matches with the company's values. After all of this I got the virtual on-site, where I had a technical, behavioral, and case interview. For the case interview, it was mainly just logic and a little bit of debugging so no need to really prepare for it (if you do want to prepare, I would recommend just looking at the resources they give + being comfortable reading code). The technical was not a leetcode per say, but rather system design. Be comfortable with being given one data structure and organizing it into another data structure and using that to answer some follow-up questions where you need to access and manipulate the data they give you.
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Question 1
Tell me a time where you had to challenge the status quo.
Power day, one case, one behavioral, one technical. Very smooth. Interviews were very nice, helpful, and engaging. No trick questions all your interviewers want you to succeed. Case was a little tricky, though.
Very direct nice interviewers, the questions are relatively easy but there were two cycles when i took it, they reopened for one day in the spring. recruited reached out to me through handshake to let us know about it.
Normal powerday interview. It was pretty easy, normal OOP techincal with a banking question, case interview was a little harder. Behavioral was normal. Focus on OOP concepts. All interviewers were really nice and helpful.