I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
Phone interview. Technical in nature. Absolute nightmare. Multiple individuals on a conference call. All had very heavy accents and talked over each other. (This is not usually an issues, since I'm use to daily discussions with individuals from around the globe.) I had to ask for a repeat of each question 2-3 times. Despite having my resume and the job posting requirements in front of them, they choose to ask extremely detailed technical questions about projects and tools I used 10+ years ago. There were a dozen different areas they could have asked me about, but they choose the 3 that were clearly my weakest based upon my resume. I was asked nothing about what I had done most recently or were my strengths. The interview came across as very unfair and it is obvious to me I was setup to fail. Any company that sets up potential employees or employees to fail, is not one I'd ever consider spending my time with.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
In a COBOL program, what is the difference between using SSRANGE and NOSSRANGE?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One (Tysons Corner, VA) in May 2016
Interview
There interview involved speaking with project manager and team lead. It was very relaxed and natural conversation with the interviewers. I wouldn't say it was the hardest interview ever but they asked me some technical questions that brought me back to my computer science under graduate days. Other than that, I felt that it went very well.
It was a very fast turn around. They got my resume and wanted to bring me in for a face to face interview the next day. I heard some informal feedback from my recruiter almost immediately.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do we keep variables on the heap in Javascript?
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Sep 2015
Interview
First I interviewed on campus in Nashville, TN. Then I was invited to the main office in Richmond, VA. Everyone was friendly but it was one of my most intense interviews ever, of course besides google interview. The interview was divided into 3 sections. Technical, Case studies and behavioral.
The most excruciating was technical, I was given four programming problems to solve in 45 min. The first one was to implement binary search tree, the second was about linkedlist, the third was about implementing an algorithm to manage students resumes using java, and finally the fourth was sorting.
The interviewers were nice, but that is deceptive as it will make you feel like you are doing well when in the end they already know they are not giving you an offer.
I was contacted my my campus recruiter a week later and left a voice message saying I was not extended an offer with no explanation. I never got an official letter from them. Every attempt to speak with my recruiter afterwards were ignored.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement binary search tree to return the rightmost child node
Reverse a linked List