Capital One·Software Engineer

Capital One Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I moved into a tech screen and then a full Power Day.

Altogether it was three stages, and the Power Day ended up being the biggest chunk of effort. I went in expecting separate interviews, but the day itself still felt tightly packed.

On Power Day, I got a blend of things: there was a system-design style discussion, a behavioral conversation, and then two coding-focused segments—one that felt like coding from scratch and another that was more logic-oriented. The coding and system design portions were the parts that took the most mental energy, while the behavioral portion was more about walking through my past experiences.

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