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Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Plano, Texas

October 1, 2017
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

No technical screen. I drove out initially to Capital One in Plano, TX.

From reading on Glassdoor, others have had okay experiences with this interview. For me personally, the engineer I had for the technical interview was completely silent the entire time.

  • No hints.
  • Not even a word after he asked the question.
  • He had a timer going the entire time while I was working on the question.

It was kind of like he wanted me to do badly. Plus, they're still doing "code on this piece of paper," which is BS in my opinion. At least give me an online IDE.

Anyways, I didn't get an offer. The company felt much too corporate, and the engineers I talked to definitely didn't seem very happy.

I hope you don't get this guy when you interview!

For the behavioral part, just Google common ones. They weren't hard and were very standard.

IMO, if you can get through this interview successfully, you should just go work somewhere better!

Questions

  1. Merge K sorted linked lists into one (10 minutes)
  2. Find the first common occurrence of a value in 2 stacks (10 minutes)
  3. Design a bank account class with debit and credit accounts (10 minutes)

A case interview focused mostly on data security questions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 7 interview experiences for the Capital One Software Engineer (Internship) role in Plano, Texas.

Success Rate

43%
Pass Rate

Capital One's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in Plano, Texas is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive71%
Neutral14%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Capital One's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in Plano, Texas.

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