This program has 3 interviewing parts: portfolio review, behavioral questions, and a design challenge. If you were a designer of anything else besides UX/UI, you would not even be considered to go past the portfolio review. As a generic name of a "Design Development Program", you would think any classically trained designer with an interest in UX/UI design would have a chance to prove their worth. This was not my case. My design portfolio with careful attention to my design process was immediately disregarded by the interviewer, something I found to be very odd for a "design" program. My interviewer was very pragmatic and systems-related rather than focusing on design thinking. If you are someone who mostly cares about systems and not Capital One's claim for human empathy, then maybe you would enjoy this position. But if you are true designer wanting to create, ideate, and make an impact in people's lives, this is not the place for you. Capital One should reevaluate how they name and who they have as the hiring manager because this program title is entirely misleading and left a bad taste in my mouth for the company.

I had a portfolio review for my first round interview where I walked the interviewer through two of my case studies. Then I was invited back for their Power Day which consisted of three interviews: behavioral, Capital One fit, and a design challenge. The behavioral and company fit interview both lasted about 30 minutes, and the design challenge was an hour long. However, I didn't hear back from them for a few weeks, until I emailed the recruiter a few times and she gave me a call telling me that I didn't get the position. Felt like a lot to go through, only for me to almost be ghosted if I hadn't reached out to follow up.