Capital One Software Engineer Internship interview questions
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Dec 2019
Interview
I applied online and got an invite to do an in-person final interview at their Mclean, VA location. I interviewed in December 2019. The interview lasted 4 hours and consisted of three parts: a behavioral interview, a technical interview, and a "case study" interview, which was answering questions about a scenario where Capital One merged with a digital bank and involved debugging code. The interview also included lunch with employees who were mostly just out of college who talked about their experience working for Capital One and a tour of the office and facilities.
I had my technical interview, then behavioral, then my case study interview. The interviews in general were not too difficult. I received a rejection 1-2 days later.
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Question 1
Deep copy a linked list with each node having a random pointer pointing to any other node in the list
Given a list of strings and a list of letters, determine if the list of strings follows the same pattern as the list of letters (every string is associated with a unique letter, do the strings in the first list match up with their associated letters in the other list)
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX) in Feb 2020
Interview
No, initial phone screen. Just an email asking me some basic questions that are normally asked during the application process like "are you legally authorized to work in the US". Then, booked an interview date and flight and hotel arrangements were made. I was there for two days and got to explore Plano, TX with a 50 dollar max food stipend. The interview itself was 3 rounds Behavior, Case and Job Fit (coding and design portion). Behavior is STAR interview and job fit was one LC easy and med.
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Question 1
What are the issues with merging with another company?
I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX) in Dec 2019
Interview
No phone screening. I just submitted my resume online and got an email a few weeks later. They also came to my career fair and I think I filled out a form so that may havre helped but I'm not really sure. Anyways, they fly you straight out without ever talking to you. 3 45 min interviews: case was weird but just debug Java code and explain what it does, technical easy Leetcode, and the behavioral just 3 STAR questions. I had very little programming experience and h=felt like it was very manageable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you explained a technical concept to a non-tech person.