The whole hiring process took about a month for me before I received my start date. It took about a week before I was invited to the onsite round at the campus in Plano, TX.

The interview process at Capital One was one of the best experiences I have had. After discussing my qualifications and what I am looking for at Capital One, my recruiter sent me details of what to expect in the interview process so that I could prepare beforehand.

There were no tricky questions throughout the entire interview process. I was asked only the questions that verified my knowledge required for day-to-day tasks.

I first received a HackerRank online coding challenge. There were two coding problems, consisting of an easy and a medium HackerRank question. I was given 36 hours to finish the problems, which was more than enough time.

I was invited for an onsite interview the next week. The onsite round consisted of four rounds:

• 1 case interview
• 1 behavioral interview
• 2 technical interviews

There were no whiteboard coding questions. The questions asked during all four rounds were about how I would deal with the job on a daily basis. The format of each round depended on the type of interview, but they all catered towards verifying my past experience. They focused on debugging, architectural design, and Spring and Java 8 features. All technologies I listed on my resume were the main topics of the interview.

I feel that Capital One's interview process truly verifies candidates' qualifications as software engineers. Instead of asking questions that might be easily found online, Capital One focused on ensuring a candidate can perform from day one. My overall experience was great, and I am looking forward to working at Capital One.

Java 8 Stream and functional programming interfaces.

Microservice Design Patterns: designing a system that handles a huge amount of transactions (1,000,000+ per minute).

Spring Dependency Injection and other Spring Boot, Spring Cloud questions.

Hackerrank questions involving max heap and KPM string matching algorithms.