I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX)
Interview
First Round: on campus at my university, 30-45 minute behavioral interview
My interviewer was friendly. She asked what position within the technology development program I would be interested in, and asked some typical behavioral questions concerning conflict resolution and learning from mistakes.
Second/Final Round: on site in Plano, 3 hour long interviews before lunch with one one hour break in between
-Interview 1: Job Fit/Technical (3 Questions)
-Interview 2: Case Study (1 Question)
-Interview 3: Behavioral (3 Questions)
Each of my interviews here were one on one, and my interviewers were very kind and willing to offer advice at any point in the problem solving process when needed. I ate free lunch in the on-site cafeteria with some other potential hires and an engineering employee. After lunch was finished, I spoke to my recruiter, who proceeded to offer me a job! I had a great overall interview experience with Capital One.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a function for determining the validity of a string. The string is valid if parentheses are correctly distributed within the string.
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.
Was not too difficult. three total interviews all on the same day back to back. technical one, behavioral one and a case which was more of just a debugging question
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.