Capital One Applications Developer Senior interview questions

Telephonic Technical discussion: about your experience./How you decide when to use interface or abstract class/How you estimate for a given task in sprint or agile method/what do you know about collection framework/what is inversion of control/tell me about object oriented concepts/In my case I asked about what are the things they are looking for the position: No definite answer. He just told me he got my profile and just interviewing me.

1st round: IT Director(Program Manager) biggest challenging project/situation where you faced tremendous pressure/any situation you performed your best/relationship problem you have with your previous managers, how you cope with that, what was your action and how was the result/how do you know about the result/in a team of developers and testers for a bug raised by QA who is responsible/ any new technology in any of your project you learned and how/Why we should hire you and you fit in this position/how comfortable are you with agile/ I asked about what they are expecting from the position: There are different teams technology wise as well as development and testing team wise. The position should be for a tech lead person who will sit along with business, developers and stakeholders and estimate. Always work as a team. We are team (it’s understood from a Program Manager perspective)

2nd round: IT Manaer(QA Lead) What was your most challenging project/How was your relationship with QA team/How you react to a bug raised by QA/What is the problem you think that case the fighting between QA and developers/What is the worst thing in you in your opinion(they also know the trick)/What is your take on agile development/what was your role in the agile project you worked on/What can you do to finish the project in timely manner/situation where you faced tremendous pressure/I asked about what they are expecting from the position: As she was from QA team she only knew that he will be the one who will be leading the Java team doing the fighting with QA.

3rd round: Sr. Application Developer(The position I went for) static synchronized vs non-static synchronized/velocity/static inner class, inner class, why we need it/class locking vs object locking/left join vs right outer join/how to sort a collection/how you react if there is change request at the end you got with no extension of deadline/what are the soft skills that you have for this position/show me a architecture diagram of a web application/which technology you are passionate about/the most challenging project that you have/what container you have used for your web application/most difficult project you handled in sense of architecture/have you ever found any situation where some person is not accepting your design solution/xmlhttp vs http/What kind of card payment system you know about/what you know about online payment gateway/how do you keep yourself updated with the industry/how you review code/what kind of security you can take care while coding/what is deobfuscation/in a code for collection what you check while reviewing the code/how you worked in an agile platform/What should we do to finish the project on time if there is too much backlog at the end/what do you know about spring webflow, how you used it/what do you know about reflection framework/application dispatcher vs bean factory/I asked about what they are expecting from the position: As he was in the same position he bragged a lot about the position like he will be doing coding, estimation, budgeting, meetings, hiring, architecture. From his perspective he should be a one man army./I asked how you will evaluate someone for the position or what are the things you will be looking at: He stated if we do not find you fit for a senior role we may consider you for junior roles and then he reacted like he has some flight to catch right now.