I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Capital One (Washington, DC)
Interview
The process took me around 4 months from when I applied to the final interview. The recruiter make a couple mistakes so I don't think it is a all normal to take that long. Though I'm sure it still takes a while to get through the interview process since there are 5 steps.
One thing I have been told is that people often over-complicate the data challenge they send out by using a complicated neural network or something. It's really better to keep it simple and easy to understand.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time you went above and beyond to help someone.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Capital One (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2026
Interview
I had an interview with the hiring manager, and she started to ask about my CV and went through the details of each project, and also asked additional questions about each project, what would happen if we do this or that
The recruiter call me and after a 30 min meeting with HR they set me up for interview with the manager, but no one showed up and they never responded my email
Two technical rounds with case studies and coding + SQL. Coding was just LC easy level and SQL was a bit more challenging but being comfortable with all the key words should be good enough.