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System Design With a Phone-Scrolling Interviewer, Then an Offer

Capital OneSoftware Engineer · Senior+ · Onsite · Sep 2026

After three months of interviewing, I finally landed a Lead Software Engineer job at Capital One. A bit of background: I've been the lead engineer at a fairly small company for close to ten years, and almost everything I know came from doing the work. I had barely touched LeetCode-style problems, and my system design knowledge came only from the systems I'd built at my job. To get through the tec…

Shared by a candidate · reported Sep 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.