The interview started with a phone screening, followed by a "Power Day". This consisted of four consecutive hour-long interviews across different subjects: some technical, some architectural, and some behavioral.

Up to and through the Power Day, I had a great experience. Afterwards, my recruiter told me, "I passed, not great, but you're still in." This ran counter to all of the feedback I received live during my Power Day interviews.

Unwilling to provide more detailed, actionable feedback, the recruiter's statement was confusing. As it turns out, the Power Day is really just a way to onboard you into Capital One's internal recruiting platform. You are then in a "team selection" phase, which for me lasted months before I finally withdrew my application.

The secret is that hiring managers do not trust the Power Day interviews. Each team interview started completely from scratch to rebuild rapport.

Days after the team interviews, I would then receive a short message stating that:

• They decided to locate the team in a different city.
• The team had shifted focus.
• They selected another candidate (usually an internal Capital One employee).

I consistently followed up after every meeting and regularly had my emails ignored.

I expressed repeatedly the urgency with which I was approaching my job search, and I was repeatedly kept on a string as if an offer would materialize within days.

After mentioning my PTSD in one interview, I was rejected with the feedback, "we don't want to overwhelm him." This was one of the most insulting things I have ever heard; engineering is easy compared to PTSD.

This was the only feedback that would be provided to me. I asked after every exchange for feedback to improve my candidacy and was denied any. Still, they wanted to keep me in process but didn't want me to improve?

The hiring process is borderline illegal with the treatment I experienced after informing them of my disability.

Standard coding, systems design, architecture, and behavioral questions.

Followed by chaos as the hiring managers reject the previous stages of the interview.