Capital One

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - Richmond, Virginia

August 4, 2017

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

Before Interview:

Phone screen with personality/culture fit questions.

Interview Day:

Flew to VA, put up in a hotel.

Three interviews and one break during the day.

The hotel was great.

Covered all costs, including airfare, transportation, and food.

Questions

Determine if an input string of parentheses was balanced.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Capital One Software Engineer (Internship) role in Richmond, Virginia.

Success Rate

43%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive93%

Neutral7%

Negative0%

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

Capital One Work Experiences

Started working for Capital One for 3-plus years now

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

September 9, 2021

Pros: Best employee-friendly organization. Worked with a team that supports and encourages you every step of the way.

Cons: Not sponsoring for new hires as of now.

Started working for Capital One for 3-plus years now

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

September 9, 2021

Pros: Best employee-friendly organization. Worked with a team that supports and encourages you every step of the way.

Cons: Not sponsoring for new hires as of now.

Great benefits with biased performance reviews

Senior Platform Engineer • Former Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Pros: Salary, benefits, and team events

Cons: Performance management: stack ranking through politics and manager favoritism.

Great benefits with biased performance reviews

Senior Platform Engineer • Former Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Pros: Salary, benefits, and team events

Cons: Performance management: stack ranking through politics and manager favoritism.

Excellent People and Competitive Environment

Sr. Software Development Manager • Former Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Pros: Wonderful benefits and the opportunity to work with great people solving important problems. The company continues to keep up with technology improvements and is focused on the future.

Cons: Performance management causes difficult conversations, and there is a mandatory bottom bucket that needs to be filled. Many tough conversations are had.

Excellent People and Competitive Environment

Sr. Software Development Manager • Former Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Pros: Wonderful benefits and the opportunity to work with great people solving important problems. The company continues to keep up with technology improvements and is focused on the future.

Cons: Performance management causes difficult conversations, and there is a mandatory bottom bucket that needs to be filled. Many tough conversations are had.

Started working for Capital One for 3-plus years now

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

September 9, 2021

Pros: Best employee-friendly organization. Worked with a team that supports and encourages you every step of the way.

Cons: Not sponsoring for new hires as of now.

5.0
Started working for Capital One for 3-plus years now
Data Engineer • Current Employee
Richmond, Virginia, United States
September 9, 2021
Pros: Best employee-friendly organization. Worked with a team that supports and encourages you every step of the way.
Cons: Not sponsoring for new hires as of now.

Great benefits with biased performance reviews

Senior Platform Engineer • Former Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Pros: Salary, benefits, and team events

Cons: Performance management: stack ranking through politics and manager favoritism.

2.0
Great benefits with biased performance reviews
Senior Platform Engineer • Former Employee
Richmond, Virginia, United States
April 15, 2024
Pros: Salary, benefits, and team events
Cons: Performance management: stack ranking through politics and manager favoritism.

Excellent People and Competitive Environment

Sr. Software Development Manager • Former Employee

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Pros: Wonderful benefits and the opportunity to work with great people solving important problems. The company continues to keep up with technology improvements and is focused on the future.

Cons: Performance management causes difficult conversations, and there is a mandatory bottom bucket that needs to be filled. Many tough conversations are had.

4.0
Excellent People and Competitive Environment
Sr. Software Development Manager • Former Employee
Richmond, Virginia, United States
May 26, 2025
Pros: Wonderful benefits and the opportunity to work with great people solving important problems. The company continues to keep up with technology improvements and is focused on the future.
Cons: Performance management causes difficult conversations, and there is a mandatory bottom bucket that needs to be filled. Many tough conversations are had.

Capital One Interview Questions

Simple Bank System

Simulate a simple bank system that supports basic operations like deposit, withdraw, and check balance for different accounts. You will implement methods to handle these transactions and ensure validity based on account balances and existence.

Text Justification

Given a sequence of words and a line width, format the text to fit within the specified width. You must justify the text, distributing extra spaces evenly between words.

Candy Crush

Simulate the Candy Crush game. Repeated sequences of the same candy type (3 or more) should be removed until no more such sequences exist.

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