Capital One·Software Engineer

Capital One Software Engineer interview experience

Easy

Positive

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a loop that used an OA first, then a “super day.” The OA required the camera to be on and had four LeetCode-style questions; the scoring felt forgiving enough that I heard a pass score wasn’t very high.

About two weeks later, I got invited to the super day, which was one behavioral round plus a case, and then a technical system-design round that wasn’t LeetCode-based.

My behavioral interview leaned into personal themes like why I studied computer science and why I wanted to join Capital One, and it also asked how I collaborated with a team. The case round mixed code comprehension with business reasoning—there was coding involved mainly to see how I could understand and interpret existing code rather than just write from scratch. Then I moved into system design, where the prompt was to

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