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      Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 5, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One in Feb 2021

      Interview

      I applied for the position online and contacted by the recruiter a couple days later. He sent me an assessment, I completed it and he then forward my application to the Hiring Manager. They schedule a 4-hour long back-to-back interview including 2 technical, a behavior and a case (tech) interview. The first technical interview was about designing an application that involve a smart meter that send data every minute, tenant can view their OWN usage, and manager can only view usage on building basis. The second technical interview was a coding challenge. Find least amount of change for the sum. I had a hard time solving this problem to be honest. I prefer to solve it iteratively, but the interviewer insist on solving it recursively. At the end, I couldn't solve it. So I ask if he can provide some pseudo code on how he would've solve it. He refused saying that he's not allowing to????? Ffter I did some googling, I found the answer. Apparently, this is a very common problem and yet he can't allow to share his answer. Whenever an interviewer asked me to solve a problem, I always asked them to solve it afterward. 80% of the time, they can't or they can't walk me through their logics. This is the exact reason why I'm always against whiteboard interview. You do not ask question that you can't solve in the same amount of time under pressure. So I asked him if he can solve the problem iteratively rather than recursive and why recursively when you can solve it iteratively since the input array can be large. He failed to give proper answer since he probably just memorizing the answer instead of understanding it. Note to interviewer, if you ask whiteboard question, make sure you can solve it in the same amount of time and pressure. Don't pull question out of thin air or I'll embarrass you. The interviewer clearly have no skills in solving the problem since he can't even explain his solution. The last two were behavior and case study. Pretty common questions. Overall, the experience was bad. You are interviewed by the people you'll never see again if you get an offer there. What make it worse is the guy who ask technical question were probably pull questions out of leetcode or hackerrank, look at the solution and thought "Yea, the solution is easy enough" without attempting himself. The solution can be simple, but to get to that solution isn't easy. The technical interviewers were shock when I interviewed them back, I guess they're not used to getting asked during an interview. Remember, interview is two way. I don't like to work people who think they're better because they know the answer beforehand. My interviewers were all Indian, my experience interviewing with Indian interviewers is that some of them can make you sound like an idiot if you can't find the answer within minutes. However, when I interview them back, they failed to show me that they can do better.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Design a smart meter system.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Given an array of int, and an int sum. Find the minimum number of coins for the given sum.
      1 Answer
      20

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      Jun 28, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      McLean, VA
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA)

      Interview

      Interviewed for an engineer position, the interview was a joke. Asked basic OOP question with a few follow ups - no system design portion. Interviewer was very laid back and chill, didn't take it to seriously.

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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 26, 2026
      Anonymous employee
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      Software Engineer Interview

      Jun 23, 2026
      Anonymous employee
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      Expecting a challenging experience, I found the interview at Capital One to be intense, particularly during the system design section. The question on designing a rate limiter with a token bucket algorithm took me by surprise; mid-way through the problem, I realized it was very similar to a drill I’d practiced on prachub.com just days earlier. The technical rounds included several DSA questions, and the interviewers were thorough but supportive. Ultimately, I received an offer and happily accepted, feeling well-prepared despite the pressure.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Design a rate limiter using a token bucket algorithm and discuss how it would handle bursty traffic and distributed deployments.
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