tl;dr: If you are an experienced and ambitious Software Engineer, I wouldn't recommend this company. The interview process is long with a low offer. It is good for inexperienced hires or those looking for stable, long-term employment.

CapOne recently changed its process so that you no longer interview with anyone from a hiring team. Instead, you now interview with a random set of employees. If you pass, you are then offered to teams with whom you would potentially work. Your salary tier is also determined up front. This is fine for new grads, but ridiculous for experienced engineers.

Instead of being evaluated to the needs of the team you will actually end up on, you are being evaluated according to a generic question set. For four hours.

• Tech screen on HackerRank. Less than 1 hour. Easy questions.
• The four-hour gauntlet, split into 1-hour chunks with no breaks. This includes behavioral/personality, case/scenario, whiteboarding, and tech concepts.
• These four segments decide whether you pass/fail and also determine your salary.
• Team managers are shown your profile and then interview you for a final round before you get an offer. You will negotiate with a recruiter, but compensation is pretty firm. Sign-on bonuses are available.

This was a frustrating process because it is difficult to sell your value to someone who you will never see again. Some interviewers are cold and robotic. It is not convenient to set aside an entire afternoon for a single company. My process took two afternoons due to an issue with the interview prompts on their end.

Ultimately, they liked me but pinned me at a seniority level that is a lateral move for me. They are firm on this. Very disappointing. For context, I just received an offer from a different company that is 40% higher than CapOne's, so this assessment was especially weak.

Case/Scenario Questions.

1/2 hr to answer.

1. CapOne recently moved all their on-prem servers into the cloud. What are some challenges of this move?

2. CapOne recently acquired an online-only bank. What are the challenges of this acquisition?