Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
I was contacted by Capital One's internal recruiter, who found my profile on LinkedIn.
During the initial telephone interview, I was asked to write code in a chat session. I was presented with some apparently broken Perl code (which actually wasn't broken) and asked to critique it and predict its behavior.
Later, during an in-person interview, I was hardly asked any technical questions at all. The interviewing strategy revolved around "behavioral interview questions" in the form: "Describe a situation from your experience when..." I was asked to recall and describe various challenging situations I had faced and how I handled them.
Questions
Q: Describe a situation when you had to break bad news to your manager.
What did you do?
How did it go?
What would you have done differently?
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Capital One Senior Software Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Capital One's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Capital One's Senior Software Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Capital One Work Experiences
- 5.0Great Culture, Interesting WorkSenior Software Engineer • Current EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMay 26, 2017Pros: Great culture, excellent co-workers, and interesting work in terms of the problems we are solving.Cons: Nothing in particular. Need to remain focused.
- 4.0Senior Software EngineerSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesNovember 16, 2016Pros: A great salary, benefits package, and bonus. A good learning opportunity. You'll be challenged to learn a lot, fast. A distributed team (most team members telecommuted 100%). Smart, professional co-workers with a sense of humor. A not-so-messy Perl codebase with lots of tests. A mature Agile process, which helps teams function well. Emphasis on documentation, so there are written procedures for doing some complex tasks. New initiative to automate as much as possible (example: minimal manual QA). Lunch-and-Learn sessions, in which a speaker gives a presentation during lunch.Cons: - Too many communication tools (email, multiple flavors of IM, multiple ways of doing voice chat, video conferencing, screen shares, pair programming, message boards, wiki, Slack, etc.), which sometimes cause communication to go haywire.
- 3.0Stay away if you're talentedSenior Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSan Francisco, California, United StatesMarch 2, 2020Pros: Friendly people, great work-life balance, good benefits, decent salary, nice offices.Cons: Clueless executives, bad management, cutting benefits, shareholders over employees, hires entry-level talent, stack rankings, values talkers over performers, hush-hush secrecy, doesn't reward excellent performance.
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