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Updated Feb 7, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Data Analyst at Capital One
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 (took 2 weeks)
I was contacted by a recruiter and was asked if interested in this position. I said yes and then received a link to take a personality test, a math test and a reading test. After passed all the test, I was contacted by hr and scheduled a phone interview with a hiring manager. In the phone interview, all the questions were technical.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Data Analyst at Capital One
Posted Jan 25, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in McLean, VA (took 2 weeks)
Recruiter #1 contacted me via Linkedin.
Recruiter #2 followed up with a couple phone calls
Invited to attend 'power day' of interviews
Power day consisted of 2 'case studies' and 2 behavioral interviews.
Then a case study after lunch. If you are not invited back after lunch you will not be getting an offer.
Behavioral interviews are the basic 'tell me when....' type questions.
The cases are not your normal business school cases. You are given some metrics as assumptions then breakdown the algebra. A high-school student could do these. There is little analytic thought required. The majority I heard of were all break-even related.
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Reason for Declining
The culture was weird. I come from a traditional banking background and this is not it. The office campus is odd. I can see how a fresh undergrad would love this place. I would have loved it then, drank the kool-aid, and probably be an interviewer currently if I had. I think the people think they are better then they are. I had one person tell me that the interview process was 'very rigorous'. This was not rigorous, it was a bit odd, but not rigorous. The offer was low to me. The locations that were offered we less then ideal for me as well. Richmond and McClean are not places where a ton of other financial services companies exist which is concerning. I felt that the recruiter did not set the expectation of what the job would be. It seems like functions are vertical in nature without cross ownership of tasks.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Data Analyst at Capital One
Posted Oct 28, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Richmond, VA (took 1 week)
Both another director in another company's interview and I thought Capital One had some kind of weird interview process.
IMO, we can not hire an candidate only by asking several cases or behavioral questions without some "real" challenging questions for this level position (Senior Data Analyst), such as "please compare the algorithms which you have involved in previous data mining models ". (base on my previous working experience and other on-site interviews' questions)
And to my HUGE surprise, a manager in statistician said that "I didn't know anything about SQL when I joined capital one after I got my BS degree 7 years ago" , "Capital one has a on-site training program that teaches you this kind of technics", "we only hire the one has analytical thinking".
Anyway, I don't want to offense these managers and directors, maybe we have different views about how to be a good candidate. I am not saying a good candidate must be a SQL master. It is your choice whether to be managed by them or not.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Group/Panel Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Data Analyst at Capital One
Posted Aug 4, 2011
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 days)
Recruiter contacted me about the position I applied online and set up a phone interview. She asked detailed questions about my work experience but in the end said my data analysis experience was not strong enough. And on top of that, they are "looking for people with prior industry experience" which I found contradicting to what they emphasized in the beginning--someone smart and very analytical. Anyway the experience was quick which is good in some way. I think they just don't want to train people instead they are looking for experienced hires.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and an IQ/Intelligence Test.
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Senior Data Analyst at Capital One
Posted Jun 28, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took a day)
After the online application, I was called by the recruiter. He asked a few questions about my current job and my resume. Soon I got a notice for an on-site interview, which consists of one behavioral interview and two case interviews.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Skills Test and a Personality Test.
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Senior Data Analyst at Capital One
Posted Apr 28, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2011 in Richmond, VA (took 1+ week)
Got an email from the recrutier asking me to take their online assessment. Passed the online assessment then was scheduled for a phone interview with a director in data analysis department. He asked about my background, how comfortable I was to work with large database, and asked me to describe a project I had been working on. Got an onsite notice 3 days after the phone interview. The onsite started with a behavioral question and job fitting session, during which 3 questions were asked and different functional areas in the data analysis department were described and I was asked to pick one that I was most interested in. Then a case study, another behavioral question session and another case study. Had lunch at 12pm and was sent to the airport after a brief tour of the campus. The behavioral questions were standard questions like "describe how you learned sth new" and "describe how you set up a goal and achieve it". The case studies were about credit card profit and loss insurance. They were straightforward as long as you are clear on how to match numbers with cost and revenue. Overall it was an interesting experience.
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cost of mailing $0.5, response rate 1%, average balance per month $1000,
insurance charges 1% of average balance monthly, customer claim rate 5%
(once insured customer files a claim, the balance will be wiped and C1
lose $1000).
Question: profit per customer, graph claim rate vs response rate, graph profit vs response rate and find the response rate for maximum profit (r=1%)
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Personality Test.
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