Had an internal referral for the AWS Cloud Engineer position. Talked with the recruiter quickly just to see if I’d be interested in the position. From there, I had a phone screen with the hiring manager and his boss asking me some basic technical questions (difference between while loop vs. for loop). After passing that, I was invited for an on-site interview. Had 4 rounds of interviews: 2 Job Fit interviews, 1 Behavioral interview, and 1 Case interview. The Job Fit and Behavioral interviews had 2 interviewers in the room, while the case interview just had one. Job Fit just went over my technical skills, coding problem, troubleshooting problem, do I understand what an Ansible role is doing, etc. The Behavioral is more communication ability and based off STAR (Situation/Task, Action, Result) pattern. The case interview can really be anything, from a math problem to a coding problem or something in between. I stumbled quite a bit in the case interview, and even though I figured it out in the end, I needed a lot of guidance to get through it.

Next day, I get a call from the recruiter saying they are passing. I struggled a bit with the troubleshooting portion of the interview (guess the role requires a lot of troubleshooting) as well as the case interview I mentioned above. All-in-all, I’m not upset, but realize that Capital One just isn’t the company for me after not getting an offer 3 times.

Code the algorithm for figuring out an anagram between two strings.