Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Capital One with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 138 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 Data Scientist according to 138 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 20%
Presentation: 14%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 7%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Drug test: 3%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Apr 2016
Interview
First is to talk your resume with recruiter for 20-30 mins,after that will be a hackerrank challenge.After that I have been scheduled a tech interview with data scientist, the process goes really good, I wonder why I didn't pass this round, they are very likely to ask modeling questions that they may currently stuck, if you are not able to give the answers they want to solve their current problem , they will reject you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
coins, string manipulation, define a logit function and input data to compute.
how to detect the Fraud with current data problem, you are expecting to answer how to deal with missing value, how to use classification method, which one is good to use?Later there will also be a problem which method is the least useful. What is the effect of FP and FN.How to change the model if the amount (one is large like $1,000,the other is $5) turned out to classified as the same.
Only gone through the initial HR interview process so far. Waiting to go through OA and power day. Applied mid June. Got an answer end of June/ early July. Seemed like just a screening of the resume so far. Nothing substantial yet.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Capital One (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2026
Interview
I had an interview with the hiring manager, and she started to ask about my CV and went through the details of each project, and also asked additional questions about each project, what would happen if we do this or that
The recruiter call me and after a 30 min meeting with HR they set me up for interview with the manager, but no one showed up and they never responded my email