I knew the hiring manager, and she had reached out to me with the job offer. Once I agreed to move forward, I was contacted by a recruiter who scheduled and prepped me for the interview. I was invited for a "Power Day."

On Power Day, I was interviewed by five people.

• First interview was a behavioral interview with the hiring manager's boss's boss. Basically, he asked me to describe my current and previous roles and asked questions about what I liked or didn't like about being a software engineer.
• Second interview was a case study with the hiring manager's peer. The recruiter had told me that the case study would be a business problem, but it wasn't. It was more or less a system design question. I was given a problem and asked to solve it.
• Third interview was a behavioral interview with the hiring manager. The hiring manager already knew me, so we spent the time catching up with each other.
• Fourth interview was a job fit interview with the hiring manager's boss. He asked me to explain the projects I had been working on and peppered me with questions, asking for more details where required.
• The last interview was a job fit interview with my hiring manager's peer, and it was the strangest interview that I have ever faced in my life. Basically, this interviewer decided to conduct a "stress interview." In a stress interview, the interviewer basically tries their best to stress out the interviewee. I wasn't prepared for this, and I have never seen anyone do a stress interview in IT. Not only that, the interview dragged from 30 minutes to 90 minutes, and I had to stop the interview because my nanny had to leave.

I believe the last interview was an anomaly. After I was hired, I asked several people if they had experienced a stress interview, and no one I talked to in tech within Capital One has experienced this. The only thing I can figure out is that the last interviewer was having "fun" with me.

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