Capital One·Software Engineer

Capital One Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Oct 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process landed in a Power Day format that ran for roughly four and a half hours, with a recruiter-prep start and then four one-hour rounds.

I expected normal coding, but the experience started off shaky: my coding round ran through CodeSignal, and platform issues cropped up that made it harder to focus. I still worked through the problems as best I could, but the vibe was clearly disrupted by the tooling.

When it did come time for the coding content, the tasks matched the same kind of patterns I’d heard about for this loop. One prompt involved digits and required logic around pairs with exactly a certain number of missing characters, then checking whether each pair summed to a target, with test cases provided. There was also a

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