Capital One Sr. Data Analyst interview questions

Recruiter #1 contacted me via Linkedin. Recruiter #2 followed up with a couple phone calls Invited to attend 'power day' of interviews Power day consisted of 2 'case studies' and 2 behavioral interviews. Then a case study after lunch. If you are not invited back after lunch you will not be getting an offer. Behavioral interviews are the basic 'tell me when....' type questions. The cases are not your normal business school cases. You are given some metrics as assumptions then breakdown the algebra. A high-school student could do these. There is little analytic thought required. The majority I heard of were all break-even related.

Both another director in another company's interview and I thought Capital One had some kind of weird interview process. IMO, we can not hire an candidate only by asking several cases or behavioral questions without some "real" challenging questions for this level position (Senior Data Analyst), such as "please compare the algorithms which you have involved in previous data mining models ". (base on my previous working experience and other on-site interviews' questions) And to my HUGE surprise, a manager in statistician said that "I didn't know anything about SQL when I joined capital one after I got my BS degree 7 years ago" , "Capital one has a on-site training program that teaches you this kind of technics", "we only hire the one has analytical thinking". Anyway, I don't want to offense these managers and directors, maybe we have different views about how to be a good candidate. I am not saying a good candidate must be a SQL master. It is your choice whether to be managed by them or not.