I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Jul 2025
Interview
Multiple conversations with a recruiter.
Then the "Power Day" 4 rounds, of 1 hour interviews,
You receive all of the information you need for the interviews from the recruiters. All of the questions I was asked related to banking / fin-tech
Coding, Case Study, Behavioral, System Design.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Build a banking application (from scratch) that accepts deposits and withdrawals, a user can have multiple accounts. Then add in transfers. Then add in user statistics.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
- Started with recruiter contacting me on Linkedin. Had a discussion for 30 minutes.
- Followed by online test. I cleared it and then interview with hiring manager was scheduled.
- Dialed in the number, the hiring manager joined a little late and he gave overview of the position and other stuff. The other member joined 20 minutes late and was passive interviewer for the first 15-20 minutes and then took the technical interview.
- The Second member was not very clear with the questions and I had to ask him time and again, about what he actually wanted. He was obviously looking for some answers which were textbook answers. I gave answers based on the requirements.
- Hiring manager then asked about the skills and asked me to rate myself on those.
- once this was done, no response from anyone. checked with recruiter who said he will check with hiring manager. Checked twice again with recruiter, but no response to the emails.
- Guess this the end. Would have hoped for a better communication from recruiter. When candidates are expected to respond on the emails promptly during interview process, not sure how fair is it , if the recruiters don't do their jobs.
- Doesn't advertise a good culture to the prospective candidates.
30mins with hiring manager, 1 hour job-specific skills, 1 hour behavioural interview. Offer letter and rest of the process was smooth. Generally easy-to-moderate questions in STAR format, modest interviewers. An all-round good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you prevent double payments in a card payment system?
It was challenging, thoughtful, rather fun at times and stressful. You will never know what they want so just let your personality shine through. This should be enough - I have no more.