Do not interview with Capital One - they are well known for having fake job listings and even if they interview you they will waste your time yanking you around demanding 3+ months of interviews that are irrelevant to the position you are applying for, and Capital One will not honor a written and signed offer letter if you get one.
Short version of the story: Capital One rescinded my signed written offer 1 month after I had signed and 2 weeks before I was meant to start, and refused to say why (BEFORE my background check had started so I know it was nothing to do with that). An employment lawyer told me I live in an at-will employment state and have no legal recourse, but I figured I can at least warn others away from this dumpster fire of a company.
Longer version (only read it if you want the full details, because I’m giving all of them and it’s long):
I started an interview process for a role at Capital One in early August. They dragged this interview process for months - often taking 3-4 weeks to get each next interview round scheduled - but I finally got to an offer at the end of October, which I signed a few days after receiving it with a planned early December start date. After signing the written offer, I met with the team I’d be joining, told friends and family, and made material financial decisions around housing and whatnot based on this promise of employment.
I receive a call from an unsaved number on the Friday before Thanksgiving, almost a month after I signed the offer. I picked up in case it was important and someone on the other end asked for me. I asked them who they were and they identified themselves as AwfulHRPerson (not their real name) from Capital One and then launched into how even though they had given me an offer of employment in October that I had signed, that Capital One was going to pull my offer. I was completely blindsided and shocked and asked why and all AwfulHRPerson would repeat to me was “All I can say is that this decision is final, and that I’ll make sure this feedback gets back to the appropriate parties” - which is HR-speak for AwfulHRPerson was not going to do jack.
I then said that I didn’t know AwfulHRPerson and that this could be anyone, would Capital One send me anything in writing confirming what AwfulHRPerson was saying? AwfulHRPerson said no, there would be nothing in writing. AwfulHRPerson was super shady about the whole thing and AwfulHRPerson fully ruined my weekend and Thanksgiving. I tried to contact the hiring manager and the recruiter that I had been working with and they stonewalled me, to this day neither ever bothered to respond.
The kicker is that the following Monday, someone different from Capital One’s HR emailed me asking for some documents so they could start my background check before my start date. Clearly whatever awful person who signed off on this BS was also incompetent and didn’t loop in everyone that they were supposed to loop in. So I said F it, and I sent over the documents and had some back and forth with this other HR person about how excited I was to start. Which forced AwfulHRPerson's hand to actually have to put in writing that they were rescinding my written and signed offer while still refusing to give a reason. Unfortunately, Glassdoor does not support screenshots, otherwise I would post the screenshot here
Dragging out their poorly-run interview process for actually months on end just to pull the rug out from under me like 2 weeks before I was meant to start leaves me feeling terrible about Capital One. I had stopped interviewing other places and stopped my app to grad school that I was doing as a backup option. Because of them, I missed the grad school deadline and I had to restart my job search from scratch, all right before the holidays which was incredibly stressful and awful.
Stay away from them - in addition to fake job listings and not honoring signed written offer letters, even if you start working there they are known now for having a backstabby culture with twice per year stack rankling and layoffs. Lots of hire-to-fire.
I know it’s a tough job market in tech right now but if you can go literally anywhere else, you should.