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Business Analysis Manager Interview Questions
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Capital One asks that you not give away their specific case questions, and I'm going to respect that. The standard interview is 2 behavioral interviews and 2 case interviews. The behavioral interviews are pretty easy. The best way to prepare is to have a series of stories from your career (6 or 7) that you can use to address the standard behavioral questions. The cases were harder for me to prepare for. I read a mix of reviews saying they were really easy or really hard. The CapOne sample case (as of July 2012) was ridiculously easy, but some of the Case In Point (a prep book for case interviews) were tricky. CapOne cases are different than the management consulting cases (from Case In Point) in that they tend to focus much more on math rather than on open-ended business thinking. Both of the cases that I did were break-even analysis, which means you just have to take the information you're given, compute profit, and then solve for profit = 0 as they tweak the parameters. I was really nervous on the first one, but I blew the second one away. They were, to me, very easy. The problem was that if you do well on the first 4 interviews you get a 5th interview (it's a 3rd case), and that's where I did poorly and didn't get the job offer. The problems were that the SVP they called in was kind of a jerk and that I was really tired after 4 interviews, lunch, and then an hour of just sitting in a tiny room waiting for that last interview. I don't know if him being a jerk was part of the test or not. Everyone else had been very friendly and helpful, but he was much more abrasive. He also took away my calculator. I had brought my own 'cause I'm comfortable with it and the first two case interviewers didn't mind at all, but he all but literally took it out of my hands as though I was intentionally cheating, and that really rattled me..
Case study 1 was about identifying the profitability per subscriber for Sirius XM radio. Needed to know how to determine revenue, revenue per sub, etc.
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1. (behavioral) - recall a time you had to meet a pressing deadline. Identify a time you had to influence others. 2 (case #1) - you are CEO of a ISP within just one Metro area. You don't own infrastructure, just rent it from other major ISP. You sell 1 internet package to customers. Your have a call center/support center. How would you know if you are profitable? What factors would you consider? (case #1.1) - what if you average customer stayed longer (x months), what would be your gut reaction to profitability? Can you calculate? 3. Case 3: break even point for 2 comparable products. Draw profitability chart. Find X. Solve for X on one, then apply to other to find where the two meet (due to constraints that cause each to flatten out in revenue).
Set up two equations related to case-specifics and chart them on a graph.
Tell me about a time when you had a disagreement with a coworker
Walk me through resume, tell me more about X experience or project you worked on, strengths / weaknesses, among other. There’s a new initiative your team wants to implement that you know nothing about… What would you ask them to understand if it makes sense? Do you have any questions about the role?
Explain a high impact project that you worked upon during your previous work experience. Explained end to end
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