Data Science 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 Science 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 Science 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 a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Jan 2018
Interview
4 step process after applying / talking with recruiter:
1) Code challenge. Its an online timed (3 hrs) series of 4 questions.
2) Phone screen. Technical questions, walk through a mock- data science project. Some modeling questions. Explain what projects you have done in the past.
3) Data Challenge. They provide a data-set and a series of 4 easy question, and one hard question. Untimed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain how you would build a model to predict call length and route to appropriate agent at call center.
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