Sr Engineering Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Capital One with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr Engineering Manager roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Capital One overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Capital One as a Sr Engineering Manager according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
Skills test: 21%
One on one interview: 21%
Group panel interview: 14%
Personality test: 7%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
1st screening - coding did only 1 easy, 2 easy to medium didn't looked at 2 other problems but still got selected to powerday
power day - 2 behaviour, 1 coding, 1 case, 1 system design.
Overall interview questions and process is very easy. With proper preparation its easy to pass the interview. I didn't got the offer
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
case - determining rules for a virtual card
system design for a payment system.
I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One (New York, NY) in Jan 2026
Interview
I applied through their application link. Their recruiter reached out, then these steps -
Assessment
Interview, panel style, virtual
5 interviews, each 1.5 hours (two tech, two behavior, one case study)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question 1 - given two number arrays, first array is price[], second is ratings[]. Return the index of max ratio of rating/price.
Question 2 - given an array of strings, check if a string starts and ends with an vowel, case insensitive. If so, reverse the middle string (excluding the start and end vowel), and return the modified array.
Question 3 - Given a matrix, with single digit positive integers and plus and minus signs only, only go top to bottom and left to right, return max evaluated number.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Reston, VA) in Feb 2025
Interview
Recruiter screen, hiring manager interview, power day interviews (2 behavioral, 1 system design, 1 coding, 1 case interview)
Red flag 1 - The titles at Capital One are inflated. Senior Engineering Manager role is more toward coding and being hands-on within a small team. No scope for managing multiple teams, mentoring, setting strategic vision and technology roadmap.
Red flag 2 - Cookie cutter interview templates which does not assess your skill sets.
Red flag 3 - Coding interview was set-up for failure, the assessment tool did not have IntelliSense, not allowed to check for syntax online while sharing screen. I did not understand the interviewer's logic to expect candidate to remember syntax and how it correlated to the candidate's abilities/skills. The problem was copy pasted on the solution file itself rather than presenting that as a separate panel. I had trouble scrolling back and forth.