Almost feels like they want to hire people. Almost... I applied last year to the same position they asked me the same questions from one year ago. The interviews felt like they were trying to change initial conditions always but not in a way to test if you can adapt but in a way to make you fail I even feel one of the interviewer getting angry because I was answering everything. They also ask me for 8 years of addresses as a background check and digital ids just to discard me in less than 12 hours after giving them all that information. It felt like they just wanted to collect my personal information. If you have the opportunity avoid risking your personal information in this process.
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Estoy apenas recibiendo la propuesta de agenda para la entrevista, todo de una manera muy respetuosa y con mucha comunicación entre ambas partes, atendiendo cualquier incidencia que pueda darse, ajustes y entendimientos entre los participantes en la entrevista.
First round: 4 questions on an automated coding platform. First two were relatively easy and last 2 were difficult. Would suggest not prematurely optimizing.
Second round: 4 interviews on one day ("power day").
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Create a library management system that supports various operations and keeps track of state
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Mar 2026
Interview
Extremely disappointed. TLDR: 2/4 interviewers didn't know their questions and didn't even know Python (it was a Python coding round). They asked to rewrite the code in pseudo code and rewrite it using their logic. Thus, waste of time on 2/3 questions without being able to jump to the next one.
Another interviewer didn't know what a blob storage (s3) is and the the half of our system design round turned into SysDes 101 session where I explained the basics and he tried to show his interest (he didn't even look at the screen).
And at the end the recruited tried to sell me the Senior offer (huge cut). No thanks