I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Dec 2023
Interview
HR screening, mini case interview, and then a power day with 5 hour long interviews back to back. 2 behavioral interviews, 3 case interviews (2 business analyst and 1 sort of technology focused?). Everyone I spoke with was pleasant. I thought I did pretty decent in all but one of the business analyst style interviews where I was pretty tired at that point.
I would say it was a poor interview experience overall because this is a technology role, but the power day was hardly technology focused. Two of the cases were clearly catered towards consultants and MBA grads with very little emphasis on the technology aspect. The cases were centered around technology problems in theory, but the whole thing turned into a revenue, cost, and profit analysis. Not sure why there is such a huge emphasis on these business analyst type questions when there is a separate role for that. Coming from a technology company where I help solve complex technology problems, I really thought this missed the mark. There are better examples all over the internet of technology focused cases, and in my opinion none of these cases hit the mark. The hiring decision for this role shouldn't based off the ability to draw a profitability graph.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Analyze a potential partnership between Capital One and a partner to determine if it makes sense or not based off things like profitability and customer acquisition cost. Draw a profitability graph.
Analyze a mobile app game to see if it makes sense for Capital One based off revenue, costs, and profitability. Weighted Averages.
Case centered around how to improve the DMV.
Recruiter is wonderful. she set the table for what was to come. Walked me through in detail before each interview round and set me up for success to the best of her ability. The only problem here is that the actual folks interviewing you are just there to tick a box and move on, they don't want the best for you or the company.
I'll give you an example:
1. Recruiter call = Perfect. Easy Peasy
2. The mini case = standard case study, ask questions on how you think, show some data interpret what you see, all good.
3. The power day - 4 hours of interviews - This is where capital one needs some help. You interview with other managers, leaders etc. but the problem here is that they could be from anywhere in the company, and no incentive to them other than a meeting that got thrown on their calendar and they get to burn an hour of their day. The first meeting was "ok" - standard data questions much like the mini case. but the second guy I spoke with just seems like he needs a day off, miserable, spoke so fast just to read off his script and get this thing over with. Created an atmosphere of negativity from the start - had no personality to even try to make this a pleasant experience.
I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (New York, NY)
Interview
The interview process was very lengthy: there was the initial interview with a recruiter which was then followed by 4 rounds of interviews with other product staff. The final one is Power Day: 4 hours of back-to-back interviews so it's pretty intense.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked that I not share the interview questions.