Capital One·Software Engineer

Capital One Software Engineer interview experience

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California, MDPosted Jan 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Before speaking with anyone, I had an online technical assessment that was proctored.

In the live technical interview afterward, I solved all the problems I was given, so I genuinely expected the process to move forward.

But I ended up getting rejected. The interviews were open-camera and microphone-based, and after thinking about it, I realized I might have missed something during setup—there was a reminder about checking my surroundings around the exam environment. The whole experience was a bit unsettling because the actual technical performance didn’t line up with the decision.

In the end, there was no offer, and the experience left me with mixed feelings—on the one hand

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