Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Capital One with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 46% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 221 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 221 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 27%
Skills test: 20%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 10%
Personality test: 7%
Background check: 7%
Presentation: 5%
Drug test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One in Mar 2026
Interview
I was scheduled for an initial interview with HR, but the date kept getting changed several times. Eventually, the interview was cancelled without even checking with me. Then, all of a sudden, I received an email saying:
“Thank you for taking the time to apply to the R233073 Senior Software Development Engineer - Services role. We have enjoyed learning more about you. However, we have decided to move forward with other candidates at this time.”
The strange part is that I never even had a call with HR. It feels like a very odd hiring process. After seeing recent news about layoffs at Capital One, it seems they are cutting around 1,100 roles, which might explain the situation. Still, it’s disappointing not to receive a proper explanation.
Other Senior Software Engineer Interview Reviews for Capital One
Don't waste time on here. If though you pass the interview, they won't hire you, you need to wait for team matching which make sense at this point, but they will tell after 3 months that they don't have head count. What a nice waste of time.
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They copied what everything Amazon do. Prepare for Amazon interview help a lot.
Power day style interview, two coding, one system design, one behavioral. Everyone was nice, but the interviewers seemed a little under prepared and/or new to interviewing in general. Questions where essentially leetcode medium/hard almost word for word.
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Leetcode Count primes, looking for optimal solution
Code assessment then to power day interview with 4 rounds. Overall the power day interviews were okay except for the case study. The interviewer was disengage while being on their phone the whole time. There was a part where the interviewer said fix the mistakes then went back to their phone. I pointed out their code has other errors with template and was ignored. Then while attempting to fix those (10 mins later) they mentioned to ignore that part and focus on the very bottom part of the code. What a waste of time and very unprofessional. This makes me wager a few of the interviewers probably could not pass their own interview process today.
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Code signal 4 questions. Power day is one coding question, system design, case study and behavioral.