I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (New York, NY) in Jan 2022
Interview
Despite having a recruiter which took weeks to respond to me, I made it to the final round. I was given several hours of interviews. After a week, they rejected me without any feedback. What do you want? How am I supposed to improve?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bank level questions were given. This is not a big tech company or even a tech company.
Was not too difficult. three total interviews all on the same day back to back. technical one, behavioral one and a case which was more of just a debugging question
Expecting a challenging experience, I found the interview at Capital One to be intense, particularly during the system design section. The question on designing a rate limiter with a token bucket algorithm took me by surprise; mid-way through the problem, I realized it was very similar to a drill I’d practiced on prachub.com just days earlier. The technical rounds included several DSA questions, and the interviewers were thorough but supportive. Ultimately, I received an offer and happily accepted, feeling well-prepared despite the pressure.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a rate limiter using a token bucket algorithm and discuss how it would handle bursty traffic and distributed deployments.
Recruiter screening to begin with. Then, technical discussion about java, spring boot, design pattern, small coding tasks and followed by design assessment for distributed systems. Finally, managerial round for the team fit