Capco interview questions

Initial Stage: Online questions Covering: Your motivations, the industry, opportunities for Capco, CV & Cover Letter Stage Two: Video Interview Questions Stage Three: Group Interview (Duration 3hrs) Consisting of a group case study and 3 shorter interviews with Capco employees plus Q&A. Following this I understand that there were a further 2 interviews (1 with HR and 1 with a Partner) unfortunately I was not invited to one of these interviews. Process was generally fine, however I was very disappointed to wait over 3 weeks (the time frame given was 1-2) and I had to chase a few times in order to get any response as to whether I would progress to the next stage and receive feedback on my interview. Had I not chased, I am not sure I would have received an update that I had not progressed to the next phase. Given at this point I had probably invested 5 hours in writing the application and attending interviews plus time practicing of case studies, I did not think that was very impressive. Upon chasing, I did receive feedback, though frankly it was not particularly helpful as it was not made clear to me what I could improve up on in order to get an offer next time around or what other candidates did, said demonstrated that put them ahead of me. Instead I was told I came across well, had good experience etc and when I had asked for specific points of improvement I was told there were none listed but I had not performed as well in the case study exercise. In fairness, excluding the ending part of the process (for me), which left a bad taste in the mouth I felt the interview process was carried out well.

The interview process consisted of 4 steps: 1) cv and cover letter submission. 2) after one week, invitation to complete a video assessment. I was asked to record a 1 min answer for 4 questions. Interesting questions ranging from "explain a database to a 5 yr old" to "what question would you ask the ceo of a bank". 3) after 2 weeks from submission I was invited to an online assessment centre with other 20 candidates. It lasted over three hours but it didn't feel scary or stressful at all. In the first half I was asked to do a group case study and present it. I felt the group collaborate quite well and the only difficulty was the time constraint. At this point the only recommendation would be to come up with good ideas to solve the case study, no technical preparation is required (otherwise minimal if you don't have a background in finance / consulting). During the second half of the AC I interviewed with 3 other senior consultants (roughly 15 mins each) who asked me about my background and motivation. At the end of the AC we had some time for Q&A. 4) after 2 days from AC, I got a final interview with a managing principal and a hr manager (30 mins each). No technical questions, just a nice chat about data with the MP and some soft skills questions from the hr. After a few days they called me and offered me the job. Eventually I rejected the offer because although the company gave me a really good impression, I would have expected to get some more technical questions about coding /ML which I wasn't asked about.