I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Capital One (Arlington, VA) in Oct 2021
Interview
The interview process was a bit strange because I really wasn't told what the actual job was for. They have a very broad application for product management that was supposed to cover quite a few positions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Why do you want to work for capital one?
2) On the Mini-Case interview, I was asked about CreditWise, and mainly asked what I know about it.
There was also another portion asking me about a specific feature they wanted to implement about the sign up process for Creditwise and improvements that can be made and how some of the features can be tested.
There were some red flags during the interview as the director of the PM role seem very out of it and non-interested. My interview was over zoom and the entire time, the director was not really focused. Every once in a while, the director asked me to provide more details to the question, almost as if they are looking for a specific buzzword. The entire interview felt very loosely structured and the entire time, the director looked very unamused.
Good interview process for first round, surrounding credit wise product. I felt the interview process was different from traditional interviews where it's important to know how to prepare, otherwise it's difficult. Thankful to previous Glassdoor reviews, I was able to prepare properly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the market size for credit wise?
What value does credit wise bring to capital one?
Design change with wireframes - how do you think about it? Why?
How would you get a buy in from leadership?
I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Aug 2021
Interview
HR screen plus two rounds of formal interviews virtually with product managers and other business managers. Overall extremely long and drawn-out waste of time. Don't make candidates sit through 4 one hour long each interviews. I get that you want to understand the person before you hire them but it's quite ridiculous that this is the process.
If you want to understand someone, you can do that with 30 minute interviews. By the time you get to your fourth interview you'll be feeling like you don't even want the job anymore.
The recuiters I had were nice and good to work with but that doesn't change the process being poorly designed. Look at the reviews on glassdoor. People repeatedly say the same thing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Walk me through a product you worked on..
Analyze a business case and recommend something..
Design a hypothetical product given a promt..