I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in May 2012
Interview
Drove into Richmond from Wake Forest and was compensated for gas a put up in a nice hotel. It consisted of 2 case interviews and a behavioral interview. The behavioral interview was more relaxed than the two case interviews; the interviewee just wants to learn about your character to see if you would fit into the company. The two case interviews are much more stressful and intense and are highly quantitative and cryptic.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Calculate the break even point given some price and revenue data.
Online Assesment: There were 3 questions of which one was something like finding minimum possible sum with OR, second one was related to BFS on graph and third one was Falling apples which was related to dp. Each question had 5 test cases. I had got 14 out off the 15 cases. After the oa, 46 students were shortlisted.
Round 1: This was another oa with 2 questions which were to be answered in 45 mins and had a weightage of 50 marks each. The oa was on hackerearth and answers were to be typed in a textbox.
First question was based on dp in grids (MaxGold problem). There was only one example given in question and we had to type only the function in the textbox.
Second question was a system design question which was similar to system design of google calender (calender design question). This question had 3 sub-questions:
What are some non-functional requirements and reason it out?
What is the DB schema for the question?
Write pseudo-code for sending invites to guests given startTime and endTime.
After this round, 22 people were shortlisted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
An achievement i was proud of.
An incident where i helped someone going out of my way.
A mistake in the past and its learnings.
It was alright based on otehr companies slightly easier for better intern pay. Lower starting salary but good work life balance. Just show that you aren’t incompetent durijng the interview process
Powerday: I think that I got nervous and stuttered, probably won't get an offer from them.
Behavioral - talk about resume and deep dive.
Technical - Work with their code signal framework: a lot of technical questions (concepts) as well as coding.
Case Study - Gives you business scenario and you need to calculate a lot of numbers.
Role play - look at many slides and you need give them recommendation and analyze data, model, etc.