I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX) in Mar 2021
Interview
- Recruiter convo
- Codesignal questions (2 easy & 2 med leetcode que)
- Powerday (4 interviews on one day 1hr each) (1 behavioral, 3 tech)
- Recruiter callback and finalize
This was specifically for senior DE position, the types of interviews during power might change based on the role but the overall structure is the same.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What challenges have you faced in past teams and how did you resolve the conflict? (one of many STAR based questions in the behavioral interview)
I wasn’t expecting coding for system design round but they asked me live coding in system design round as well . Prepare ingestion of data from multiple resources.
And focus on pyspark and pandas
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Read data from api url . And pass dates as parameters and capture data based on monthly
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Capital One (Baltimore, MD) in Sep 2025
Interview
I had a recruiter call last week for a Senior Data Engineer Position. I had prepared well but the only question I was asked is "What's my visa status?"
As soon as, I answered I'm on OPT EAD, he said he can't proceed with my profile further.
I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One in May 2025
Interview
1. Phone screen, rushed in 10 minutes
2. Sent a code test, 4 questions (1 easy, 1 med, 2 hard)
3. Supposedly there would be a follow-up with 4 interviews in a single day, assume I have flunked out ahead of this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Just came on here to gripe about the coding test. For a data engineering job, these code riddles had NOTHING to do with data whatsoever. There were no SQL questions at all.