Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York
August 24, 2019
Negative ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Applied on LinkedIn and was contacted by an internal recruiter.
After a brief conversation, I was assigned a development test.
I submitted the test two days later and was subsequently ghosted.
A rejection would be preferable to no response, considering the test was a multi-hour endeavor.
Questions
Fix the badly written weather REST API service.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 18 interview experiences for the Capital One Senior Software Engineer role in New York, New York.
Success Rate
22%
Pass Rate
Capital One's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Positive39%
Neutral22%
Negative39%
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Capital One's Senior Software Engineer interview process in New York, New York.
Capital One Work Experiences
4.0
Good Tech, Difficult Politics
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
April 18, 2019
Pros: Good benefits
Cutting-edge technology
Cons: Politics
Hard to get promoted.
Frequent unannounced changes.
3.0
Good perks; strange structure
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
November 13, 2024
Pros: The teams they've put together are generally pretty competent and friendly. People are pretty forward about helping each other out, and the work is often interesting.
Cons: Stack ranking is pretty aggressive, especially at certain positions that are more transitional between one type of work (engineers) and the next (managers, people leaders).
The result is that instead of an annual employee review, they calibrate and stack-rank every bi-annually, with other types of employee reviews that happen quarterly.
A lot of this comes from the interest that the founders had in consultancy firms and their managerial methods for optimization, but it's an approach that doesn't make sense for certain types of jobs.
3.0
Okay at best
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
New York, New York, United States
September 5, 2025
Pros: Chill leave policy: essentially unlimited.
Cons: Too many lifers at the company makes ranking hard because these people have been there their entire professional lives.
- 4.0Good Tech, Difficult PoliticsSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesApril 18, 2019Pros: Good benefits Cutting-edge technologyCons: Politics Hard to get promoted. Frequent unannounced changes.
- 3.0Good perks; strange structureSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesNovember 13, 2024Pros: The teams they've put together are generally pretty competent and friendly. People are pretty forward about helping each other out, and the work is often interesting.Cons: Stack ranking is pretty aggressive, especially at certain positions that are more transitional between one type of work (engineers) and the next (managers, people leaders). The result is that instead of an annual employee review, they calibrate and stack-rank every bi-annually, with other types of employee reviews that happen quarterly. A lot of this comes from the interest that the founders had in consultancy firms and their managerial methods for optimization, but it's an approach that doesn't make sense for certain types of jobs.
- 3.0Okay at bestSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeNew York, New York, United StatesSeptember 5, 2025Pros: Chill leave policy: essentially unlimited.Cons: Too many lifers at the company makes ranking hard because these people have been there their entire professional lives.
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