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The company is losing 1 million subscribers every month. What are the possible reasons for losing subscribers? Given the company is losing subscribers at this pace, how long can the company continue, until it starts making loss?
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Senior Business Analyst

Interviewed at Capital One

3
Aug 1, 2017

The company is losing 1 million subscribers every month. What are the possible reasons for losing subscribers? Given the company is losing subscribers at this pace, how long can the company continue, until it starts making loss?

Given the company forms a partnership with Hulu. The subscription fee is $2 per customer per month and ad revenue is $3 per customer per month, for additional customers. Hulu has 50 million subscribers and the adoption rate is 20%. How will this affect the company? How long can the company last without making loss?
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Senior Business Analyst

Interviewed at Capital One

3
Aug 1, 2017

Given the company forms a partnership with Hulu. The subscription fee is $2 per customer per month and ad revenue is $3 per customer per month, for additional customers. Hulu has 50 million subscribers and the adoption rate is 20%. How will this affect the company? How long can the company last without making loss?

Case 1: Given APR, Interchange fee, Avg monthly balance, Avg spend every month, and loss rate of 3% calculate the profit per customer. Now justify if it is profitable to give cash back to the customers.. Case 2: 2 ways of campaigning for credit cards 1. Email - 10% of applicants become customers - each representative can verify 10 email applications in an hr and is paid $25/hr 2. Chat - 20% of applicants become customers - each representative can respond to 4 applications in an hr and is paid $25/hr Profit per customer in both the cases in $100. which one is profitable email or chat. Draw the graph of profit vs no of applicants Consider a scenario where there are only 5 representatives to handle applications. In this case which one is more profitable email or chat. calculate the breakeven point for the no of representatives where chat will be profitable than email.
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Senior Data Analyst

Interviewed at Capital One

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Mar 17, 2016

Case 1: Given APR, Interchange fee, Avg monthly balance, Avg spend every month, and loss rate of 3% calculate the profit per customer. Now justify if it is profitable to give cash back to the customers.. Case 2: 2 ways of campaigning for credit cards 1. Email - 10% of applicants become customers - each representative can verify 10 email applications in an hr and is paid $25/hr 2. Chat - 20% of applicants become customers - each representative can respond to 4 applications in an hr and is paid $25/hr Profit per customer in both the cases in $100. which one is profitable email or chat. Draw the graph of profit vs no of applicants Consider a scenario where there are only 5 representatives to handle applications. In this case which one is more profitable email or chat. calculate the breakeven point for the no of representatives where chat will be profitable than email.

Lotteries are typically run by government agencies. Governments often use the funds for public school education, etc. 1. Why might people buy a lottery ticket? The lottery has 3 prize levels and when you buy a ticket you are put in contention for all 3 prize levels Odds: 1st : 1 in 10 million, the prize is 1 million 2nd :1 in 1000, the prize is 200 3rd :1 in 10, the prize is 5 dollars 2 million tickets are sold Tickets cost 2 dollars to buy 4 million in revenue from ticket sales 2. On average, how much should an individual expect to win from the lottery? 3. Is buying the lottery ticket a good deal for consumers? 4. How can the lottery attempt to sell more tickets? Let’s say, the lottery modifies its prize structure They decide to add an additional 4 million in prize money, split between the 2nd and 3rd options. This money is split collectively between all winners 1st :1 in 10 million, the prize is 1 million 2nd :1 in 1000, the prize is 200. There is also a 2 million prize which will be split collectively between the winners 3rd :1 in 10, the prize is 5 dollars. There is also a 2 million prize which will be split collectively between the winners 5. What is the collective value of a ticket now? 6. How many additional tickets does the lottery have to sell to break even on the money they put toward the new prizes? Assume, they’ve already broken even on the cost of the other lottery prizes. 7. Is it viable to sell that amount of additional tickets?
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Senior Business Analyst

Interviewed at Capital One

3
Nov 13, 2017

Lotteries are typically run by government agencies. Governments often use the funds for public school education, etc. 1. Why might people buy a lottery ticket? The lottery has 3 prize levels and when you buy a ticket you are put in contention for all 3 prize levels Odds: 1st : 1 in 10 million, the prize is 1 million 2nd :1 in 1000, the prize is 200 3rd :1 in 10, the prize is 5 dollars 2 million tickets are sold Tickets cost 2 dollars to buy 4 million in revenue from ticket sales 2. On average, how much should an individual expect to win from the lottery? 3. Is buying the lottery ticket a good deal for consumers? 4. How can the lottery attempt to sell more tickets? Let’s say, the lottery modifies its prize structure They decide to add an additional 4 million in prize money, split between the 2nd and 3rd options. This money is split collectively between all winners 1st :1 in 10 million, the prize is 1 million 2nd :1 in 1000, the prize is 200. There is also a 2 million prize which will be split collectively between the winners 3rd :1 in 10, the prize is 5 dollars. There is also a 2 million prize which will be split collectively between the winners 5. What is the collective value of a ticket now? 6. How many additional tickets does the lottery have to sell to break even on the money they put toward the new prizes? Assume, they’ve already broken even on the cost of the other lottery prizes. 7. Is it viable to sell that amount of additional tickets?

Cap One is usually collects default accts by calling these customers. Usually 15% of customers pay their accounts off. Now, they are consdering giving an offer to the customers for paying 60% amount. Should we do that or not. Abg balance is $2000. This offer will impact now, that only 10% customers will pay in full and 10% will pay 60% offer. part(b)- since we are stealing our own customers by giving an offer, what is the cannibalization rate? and what is the max. cannibalization rate that Capital One can do to break even?
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Senior Business Analyst

Interviewed at Capital One

3
Dec 5, 2011

Cap One is usually collects default accts by calling these customers. Usually 15% of customers pay their accounts off. Now, they are consdering giving an offer to the customers for paying 60% amount. Should we do that or not. Abg balance is $2000. This offer will impact now, that only 10% customers will pay in full and 10% will pay 60% offer. part(b)- since we are stealing our own customers by giving an offer, what is the cannibalization rate? and what is the max. cannibalization rate that Capital One can do to break even?

Ok now assume that the day is split into surge and non-surge demand hours. Non-surge demand lasts 4 hours and has 800 rides. Surge demand lasts another 4 hours and has 1,600 rides. Assume you can only hire drivers for the full day. How much would you need to charge during surge hours to breakeven on your profit from the first question?
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Senior Business Analyst

Interviewed at Capital One

3
Mar 23, 2021

Ok now assume that the day is split into surge and non-surge demand hours. Non-surge demand lasts 4 hours and has 800 rides. Surge demand lasts another 4 hours and has 1,600 rides. Assume you can only hire drivers for the full day. How much would you need to charge during surge hours to breakeven on your profit from the first question?

The company manufactures 3D Printers. Who should they target selling it to and which one will be more profitable? End customers directly or through retailers? Interviewer asked me to plot graph to show the volume of sales with respect to time for each scenario. Asked to calculate the profit in 2years giving fixed cost 6.6m, over head costs 2.4m/yearly, cost of the item=$250 price of the item sold=$500 and no of units= 2000/monthly. Altered the numbers: when 25% of printers breakdown and cost of repairing each one is 200$. What are the additional printers to be sold to make the profit in 1 year?
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Senior Business Analyst

Interviewed at Capital One

3
Aug 11, 2021

The company manufactures 3D Printers. Who should they target selling it to and which one will be more profitable? End customers directly or through retailers? Interviewer asked me to plot graph to show the volume of sales with respect to time for each scenario. Asked to calculate the profit in 2years giving fixed cost 6.6m, over head costs 2.4m/yearly, cost of the item=$250 price of the item sold=$500 and no of units= 2000/monthly. Altered the numbers: when 25% of printers breakdown and cost of repairing each one is 200$. What are the additional printers to be sold to make the profit in 1 year?

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