I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Capital One (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2023
Interview
Recruiter phone screen. Technical assessment on CodeSignal requires you to share your screen, microphone, and camera, verifies you pass the recording requirements and is pretty invasive. The assessment is 4 Leetcode medium questions for 70 minutes. The recruiter told me no one ever finishes the CodeSignal and the pass no pass doesn't have a pattern so is pretty arbitrary. I think you have to get at least 3 questions completely right. There are 10 visible and 10 hidden tests for each question, so you don't know which hidden tests you got wrong. I knew the second that CodeSignal was used with all these extra requirements that it would be a negative corporate environment or engineering culture or even worse.
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
Scheduled a call with recruiter. Recruiter didnt show up for the screening call and cancelled it 5 mins after the scheduled time. Dropped a follow up email and got no response. After a week, I got an email from the recruiter stating I am selected for the next round i.e Assessment. Sent me an email with the assessment description but no link. When I sent a follow up email asking for the link, I got ghosted again. It was a bad experience. Felt like she is toying with me. Why ghost an applicant repetitively? Unprofessional recruiter who doesn't respect an applicant's time or efforts!
4 rounds of interview including coding , design , case study, behavioral after clearing the code signal assesment. Coding was medium hard of 2 questions each. case study and system design was difficult.