I knew the hiring manager, and she had reached out to me with the job offer. Once, I agreed to move forward, I was contacted by a recruiter who scheduled and prepped me for the interview. I was invited for a "Power day". On Power day, I was interviewed by 5 people First interview was a behavioral interview with the hiring manager's boss's boss. Basically, he asked me to describe current and previous roles, and asked questions about what I liked or didn't like about being a software engineer Second interview was a case study with the hiring manager's peer. The recruiter had told me that the case study will be a business problem, but it wasn't. It was more or less a System design question. I was given a problem and asked to solve it Third interview was a Behavioral interview with the hiring manager. The hiring manager already knew me, so we spent the time catching up with each other. Fourth interview was a Job fit interview with the hiring manager's boss. He asked me to explain the projects I have been working on, and peppered me with questions asking for more details where required. Last interview was a Job fit interview with my hiring manager's peer, and was the strangest interview that I have ever faced in my life. Basically, this interviewer decided to do a "Stress interview". In a stress interview, interviewer basically just tries his best to stress out the interviewee. I wasn't prepared for this, and I have never seen anyone do a Stress interview in IT. Not only that, the interview dragged from 30 minutes to 90 minutes, and I had to stop the interview because my nanny had to leave. I believe the last interview was an anomaly. After I got hired, I asked several people if they had a Stress interview, and no one I talked to in tech within Capital One has experienced this. The only thing I can figure out is that the last interviewer was having "fun" with me.

The process was pretty smooth for me at that time. Their recruiter found interest on my experience and had quick call and finished first phone screening. Then online assessment was scheduled for me based on my preference. Once it’s passed, in 2 days, the recruiter will follow up and start to set up a Power-Day which is a 4hours session and every hour, there is a round of interviews. 4 rounds in a row. One round is for coding, one round is for design applications, the third is behavioral questions and lastly it’s a case study. It’s very challenging to finish all in 4 hours. But once you’re done, you will be given their decision within 48 hours. After all, recruiter will follow up closely for you to forward your resume to hiring teams for team matches if the power day has positive results. Bamp~ finally you will be allocated into a team if there is a match. The team matches sessions are not interviews officially but it’s practically interviews actually. The process are pretty quick.