Capital One Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter email came after I submitted my resume, and I had a limited window—around a week to complete it, with reminder emails depending on the timeline. It also required a pretty intense setup: camera and microphone on, full-screen sharing, and identity verification where I had to upload or capture an ID.

As I started, I realized too late that I hadn’t handled the screen setup perfectly, and it stressed me out more than the coding itself. The questions were mostly array and matrix style work at an easy-to-medium level, where brute force was sometimes acceptable. I remember the first