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%
Background check: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Apr 2014
Interview
On campus interview with a senior business analyst out of the Richmond/DC combination of offices. Easygoing southern man who was an alumni of my school. Applied via my school's career center after attending a case workshop that gave strategies for how to approach Capital One's version of the "case interview." Interview was laid back and was about 5 minutes of introductions on both sides and then the meat was the case. General business "break-even" case where you must work through some algebra to reach a company's breakeven point. Then they layer in some new information (promo-pricing, etc.) and see how your answer changes and what you would do about it from a managing perspective. Interview ends with the classic "do you have any questions for me?" and you are out. All told at most 35-40 minutes. After the initial OCR interview you head to one of the campuses and do the same format of interview with slightly more senior people and/or complex cases. Doing a few cases by yourself beforehand will help you get the rhythm and format of these cases and should help you get the basics pretty easily and allow you some time to make some more novel comments about your answer(s).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It is probably OK to be workman-like in your answer/approach the case(s) - no need to reinvent the wheel. However, don't be so vanilla in delivering the correct answer that you become relatively forgettable. There was probably one or two wrinkles of basic microecon that an interviewer may be impressed by that helps to add a bit more subjectivity to your final answer and business decision in the context of the case, but I am not sure how much it adds.
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.