I applied through 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.
1 online assessment followed by Power Day with 1 product and 2 cases. Power Day was quite tricky with concepts being combined and tested in different forms. Staying calm and taking in every word is crucial in keeping up with the casing.
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Question 1
Product: name 6 ways to improve a digital product of your choice
The interviewer was friendly he asked me Quantitative questions on a streaming platform, too much math involved. I did not reach the answer though the interviewer tried to help so got the rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer was friendly he asked me Quantitative questions on a streaming platform, too much math involved. I did not reach the answer though the interviewer tried to help so got the rejection.
I thought I did really well, but they emailed me back in a few hours, rejecting me. This was for the online test before the power day, and they didn't even give me a score.