I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Jan 2019
Interview
The code worked fine. However, their automated test was faulty. The recruiter didn't care and just tell me to contact hackerank WITHOUT giving me the their contact info. I have to research their email address. Two weeks later the recruiter said the hackerrank could not fix the error and threw me another test link. She wants me to take the test again. She does NOT care at all and she was just tossing me around.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
Phone screen. take home problem. rest api description was poorly worded and the repo from hacker rank did not have clear instructions; recruiter said it had automated testing but it did not after I opened the project. I spent an hour creating the API and was notified that I failed it by the recruiter the day after. Waste of time.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Nottingham, Inglaterra) in Nov 2018
Interview
There was a screening code test on HackerRank, which failed to work multiple times, but was progressed onto next stage anyway. so cant say much about that, from what i could see looked like basic array manipulation
Phone interview with hiring manager, just general questions about experience and more detail about the job and job fit.
Then face to face interview which contained 4 parts
- Job fit
- White board system design
- behavioral
- paired programming
All of which were in a somewhat relaxed atmosphere.
Feedback I received was interesting, apparently they felt I was somewhat "bluffing" which was slightly offensive, not sure how this was founded as any question they asked to dig deeper was answered. They were critical having to probe for more information despite following the suggested STAR method and not knowing what was on their structured answer sheet.
Felt like hacker rank failing to work, worked against me as the exposure they had to my development skills was limited to a 1 hour of paired programming, I had offered up code from some published apps I had written which would have shown 100's/1000's of hours of my coding effort instead, but they didn't really seem interested which I found weird.
In the end there was a stronger candidate, so although I had "passed the interviews" the position was taken.
Everyone I met through the day was super nice and welcoming, a somewhat enjoyable day really just a shame they felt like I was bluffing.