I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Feb 2016
Interview
Applied online via Capital careers site. Recruiter called in with basic informational questions. First had to take an online technical test which had 4 objective type question and 3 uses cases to code the pending logic. Then had a round of technical phone interview. Once cleared that there was in person Interview at capital one office. The inperson Interview had 4 rounds, 2 Behavioral round where a situation was given and was asked how would u respond to it. And 2 job fit technical round wheretask was given to architect a system based on use case and then general question based on technologies worked on in past.
Post that HR contact for offer position.
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Use case was provided and system had to be architected around it.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA)
Interview
I had one telephonic round. After clearing telephonic round they asked to come for onsite interview at VA. They had 4 different interview rounds on single day 30 mins each.
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Question 1
In Telephonic rounds they focused on design patterns, Hibernate vs ibatis, spring JDBC template, restEasy , Rest vs SOAP and agularjs. I did pretty well in telephonic round because all the questions were technical in aspect.
In onsite interview, I had one 30 min session with one of the Director. He focused more on what is my role in current project and what I am doing differently. Two Job fit interviews - 1st focused on writing code on white board related with simple threading(thread safe or not)/collection(List) and 2nd focused on in general questions like design some store. Interviewer was himself unclear what he was asking. He was not going into any technical discussion. I think he just made up mind before entering in room. Behavioral questions round should also be taken seriously where the interviewer writes down everything you say. Guide provided by Capital one is enough for preparing for behavioral interview.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX)
Interview
The interview process was lengthy but un-managed. Got a call from recruiter seeking details about current job, responsibilities and she recommended to apply for Senior Developer position. Got a call from the team member and went through technical interview on the phone for 30 mins or so. Got an mail from recruiter that I have cleared the phone interview and was called for onsite interview. Here is the point where the communication gap started to happen. Though the recruiter sent the behavioral questions and promised to touch base with me about the onsite interview process, but she never got back to me. Till the day before the onsite interview day, didn't get a call. So, followed up and got to know there will be 2 behavioral and 1 Job fit interview.
On the onsite interview day, came to know that the plan had changed and was instead interviewed for 2 behavioral and 2 job fit interviews, which was not what the recruited had told. Anyways, went through the interviews. Job fits were technical interviews and one of them was telephonic where the interviewer was interested in knowing what I had done and didn't ask any specific questions. The second Job fit was face to face wherein the interviewer asked pointed questions about Design Patterns, WCF Services, Web Site Security, Test Driven Development etc. Both of Job Fit Went Fine
Then it was followed by two Behavioral interviews - First Job Fit interview was about specific situations where I had to call for an expert help and a situation where I had to change any process. She kept taking the notes also, and it went fine. The 2nd behavioral interview was not BI but technical interview again. This was also surprising and I was asked coding questions wherein they had code snippets and they wanted to know the output of the code. Was asked about one situation also. But was told by recruiter that BI is situation based and not technical, but here it was. So, guys beware and be ready that it they can change the plan randomly or ask technical questions in BI, which was mis-communicated or mismanaged. It seemed that they had some other hidden agenda and I felt that it was not a very managed or planned process which they usually are proud of. Even after sending the e-mails of the detailed plan, they changed the plan on the D-Day.
Anyways, after the interview got a mail that I have been selected, but recruiter took 1 week to come back with the offer.
Then I got one more shocker with the offer. Guess what they offered me Software Developer position and not the Senior Software Developer position that I had applied for, which I declined.
Now, I am wondering what was the root cause of this fiasco. They communicated different interview process but conducted different process, communicated different position but actual offer was for a different position, which was again mis-communicated. If they can do this before joining he company, wonder what they will do after joining.
So guys, please be careful and just don't go over the board with Capital One. It is just another company with inefficiencies.
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Question 1
The entire interview process was unexpected. They communicated some process but actual process was different