I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
Online assessment, if pass you get a phone interview then if you pass again, there were two on site interviews. The whole process is very fast, took a little more than one week.
The interviewers are really nice there.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The onsite interview included two behavioral, two cases and one role fitting interviews. The behavioral and role fittings interviews are fine, even the first case is easy. But the 2nd case interview are much more difficult.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Mar 2014
Interview
onsite interview- four interviews, including two cases interview, one role play, one behavioral (could be conducted in different orders).
Role play: given 15 mins to read through the material about a linear regression analysis, explain it to a business manager about it and make recommendations. it's about airplane delay problem.
Behavioral : three questions, all tell me about a time..... 1 the project you are most proud of 2 an example that you convince other people. 3 a time that you have to change your plan/ strategy immediately (not limited to professional area, could be an event in your life)
Case 1: Brazil walmart issue credit card , all about profit stuff, some calculation about marginal profit and market share. (didn't do well for this one, hardest one )
case 2: life insurance: given some parameters and values, try to figure out cutoff point, break-even will be used. (okay, it looks easy after you figure everything out) use math.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
The recruiter make me appointment with a senior Statistician. It's phone interview, and she ask me 3 statistics questions.
1 According to my resume, she asked me about the project in school and questioned some problems in it.
2 Extracting data problem
3 hypotheses and simulation
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
she asked very detail about statistics basic knowledge.