I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Oct 2011
Interview
first round was on campus. One case interview and some chitchatting about background and what the position was about. The case was extremely easy. A few days later I was contacted by a recruiter to sign up online and finish some personality test and some GRE type of time assessment test. The assessment test was harder than expected, especially the verbal part where I almost ran out of time. Got another email a few days later informing me that I was selected for the final round of interview. Got to the interview site a few days later. They put me in a nice hotel and had a low-key reception the night before the power day where I got to meet some other candidates and some current Business Analysts. The current BAs will tell you that the job is pretty easy and you'd have a lot of free time. They all seem to like the job, but I got the feeling that it's nothing exciting. The next day started real early. I was instructed to check out of my hotel room by 7:30am, and interviews started promptly at 8:30. There were 2 case interviews and 1 behavioral interview. The cases were easy if you what to ask your interviewer. The whole "quantitative analysis" part that Capital One prides themselves with is nothing more than 4th grade arithmetics. I had no idea how simplified the cases were from real business scenarios and kept on asking for information that I did not need. Eventually I became visibly frustrated by the lack of intelligence put into these case questions and probably made the interviewers notice my attitude. If you have an advanced degree in quantitative field, my guess is that you won't be happy with this job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had to learn new skills to complete a task.
3 rounds of interviews, technical round focused on domain of expertise. Then there was a case study round. Interviewer was interested in execution of clear thoughts on data along with written codes.
I was referred so first a game like assessment that tested basically middle school algebra skills. Then a business case power day with three different interviewers, two of them were analytical and one was product
R1 was VJT, which was fairly simple. R2 was a screening case study, and lastly a Powerday. Powerday was grueling and cases were math heavy (bank related as well). Would recommend the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave a product and asked for multiple ways to improve it.
Business Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Capital One with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Business Analyst roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 757 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Capital One overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Capital One as a Business Analyst according to 757 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 37%
Skills test: 15%
Phone interview: 13%
Personality test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Presentation: 6%
Group panel interview: 4%
Background check: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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