Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience
Process
Interviewed on a college campus. The interview consisted of three back-to-back 45-minute sessions.
The first was behavioral. The second was coding on paper. The third was analyzing a business use case.
I was actually late to my interview after mixing up the time, but the interviewers didn't seem to mind. Being late only affected the first 45-minute interview session. I'm sure it helped that I was able to answer the questions promptly.
The coding session was the most challenging. There was one prompt that requested me to outline the problem using OOP. This was followed by two prompts that required writing code by hand. I ran out of time for both questions, but I was able to explain to the interviewer my intentions to finish solving the problems if I had more time.
The business use case was mostly about assessing my analytical thinking skills, explaining why Capital One might want to make a certain business decision, and also looking at code to find bugs or unreachable code.
Questions
Given a linked list, implement a function that creates a deep copy of the list. In this list, each node has a pointer to the next node, as well as a second pointer to some other node in the list.
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Capital One's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
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Capital One Work Experiences
- 4.0Great Benefits, High TurnoverSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeRemoteDecember 13, 2022Pros: Work-life balance is phenomenal. Good compensation and general benefits package. PTO policy is incredibly generous (along with other days off/learning days). Great senior leadership.Cons: High turnover. Consistently, work could be more interesting. Culture is team dependent.
- 1.0Corporate politics, if that's your thingSenior Machine Learning Engineer • Current EmployeeAugust 4, 2023Pros: Lots of online resources for learning.Cons: Poor management, bad performance review practices, lack of transparency, competitive environment with peers, rigid platform environment
- 1.0Dishonest management, lots of lies, and betrayals.Principal Software Engineer • Former EmployeeNorth York, Ontario, CanadaDecember 27, 2017Pros: A few great co-workers (others just stab you in the back). Some great technologies you can learn for a short term.Cons: 1. Lots of stress. 2. No work/life balance. 3. You should be your manager's pet!!! 4. Lots of talk about the company's culture, but nothing in fact. What you hear is not true, and what management asks you to do, you should NOT do (such as be vocal, do the right thing, speak up, and etc.). 5. Lots of betrayals. In fact, Capital One encourages this kind of behavior. 6. Performance reviews are done based on your commits' amount! (Lots of experienced people are overusing this by creating a huge amount of fake commits and contributions). 7. Support for other OS's such as Linux or Windows is a lie; only OSX is supported for development. 8. Huge dependency on the US team. Most of the time, you can't even contribute, change, or deploy code without US approvals. 9. Lots of delays in review processes from the US side. 10. Management has its own favorite people in teams and they listen only to them while they are talking about the flat team structure. 11. There is a huge difference between Senior and Principal roles, and Capital One's HR team can trick you with it. Don't fall into this. Renegotiate your salary if they change your title just before your start date, and expect that leads will expect a lot more from you when you are a "Principal." (And don't expect that someone will explain this to you on the first day). 12. Lots of micromanagement. They count your breaks and ask you to take fewer breaks, but at the same time, they expect you to be on call 24/7! 13. Canada's Software studio tends to follow the US almost everywhere. Lots of in-house frameworks (built in the US) on top of famous frameworks, which prevent you from gaining some fundamental knowledge.
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