I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Nov 2013
Interview
First round at University, simple 30 minute case which I didn't think I did too well on. Nevertheless, got a call that they wanted me to fly down to Washington D.C. to interview at HQ in McLean, VA. This interview consisted of 2 case interviews and 1 behavioral, and one "break" interview somewhere in the day. I was done by 12:30 noon and then had lunch with a few of the entry-level Business Analysts.
Overall, the entire process was very professional. I felt the interview questions were average in difficulty but were sometimes unfairly tricky in what they wanted. For example, one time I was asked to a break-even calculation by setting profit to our level of profit before the implementation of a new strategy/business model. The next time I was asked to to another break-even calculation, I started to do this same approach, but then the interviewer corrected me and said that I was supposed to do it with profit equal to 0. This was obviously pretty inconsistent.
Although I thought I did well with some minor errors and solid answers to the qualitative questions, I did not get the offer. From what I heard of other students there that same day, neither did many of them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you feel about this? (when talking about the answer you just came up with to a problem). It is hard to tell what they are looking for exactly.
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.
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.
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
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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