I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Nov 2015
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Application
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Mar 2012
Interview
Case 1: Do we need to keep the employment verification during the application of a credit card?
Step 1: calculate the potential average loss of a bad customer if he is approved
Step 2: calculate the expected life value for a good customer
Step 3; calculate the break-even default rate
Case 2: I am a retailer. If I want to issue credit card, can I make 20% profit margin?
Step 1: calculate the required number of credits
step 2: estimate the market size
step 3; calculate the market share
Behavioral: Tell a time when you need to ask someone for help to get a task done; tell a time when you need to learn something new; tell a time when you have a creative idea
Role play: the classical flight time of delay problem.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Case 1: Do we need to keep the employment verification during the application of a credit card?
30 mins phone interview and almost technical questions. I was invited to tell about the project I have done before and ask some questions regarding this project. Also, my programming language level was asked. There were also some standard technical questions like p-value, overfitting, cross-validation.
I applied through university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Capital One (Toronto, ON) in June 2015
Interview
Hiring through campus website. Got the first round interview 4 days after application. After the interview, wait 2-3 days to know the whether can be selected for the 2nd round interview. The second round interview is back-to-back interview without cases. A short case interview for about 20 minutes for the first round. Very similar to the one posted online as the example.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case interview. Begin with simple introduction on yourself and ends up with questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Apr 2015
Interview
First round was phone interview, totally 5 questions, 4 of them were related to basic stat concepts but given in real world background. Got notice about the final round about three hours later. On-site was much harder than the first, more business focused rather than statistics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
P-value, Ci, missing value, fund raising.
life insurance, credit card verification, flight delay, behavioral.