I applied through college or university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Nov 2012
Interview
First round interview was held on campus. The interview consisted of a half hour long case interview. It was a pretty straight forward analysis of comparing two different marketing plans. Final round interviews are on-campus in Richmond or McLean. They consisted of 3 interviews in the morning - 2 case and 1 behavioral. The cases were a little bit more difficult than the first one, and both of them were relevant to the Business Analyst position. The behavioral consisted of questions along the lines of "tell me about a time when..." There's an afternoon case interview that only some of the candidates are called back for as well. These interviews are typically with more senior level people. While the recruiters insist you get kept around for the afternoon interview because they want to know more about you, the only people I know who got offers were the ones who were interviewed in the afternoon.
They never ask you about Capital One or expect you to know things about the credit card industry.
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None of the cases are honestly that hard, but the interview will keep asking questions and dig further and further. Subsequently, the end of the case studies can be frustrating.
3 rounds of interviews, technical round focused on domain of expertise. Then there was a case study round. Interviewer was interested in execution of clear thoughts on data along with written codes.
I was referred so first a game like assessment that tested basically middle school algebra skills. Then a business case power day with three different interviewers, two of them were analytical and one was product
R1 was VJT, which was fairly simple. R2 was a screening case study, and lastly a Powerday. Powerday was grueling and cases were math heavy (bank related as well). Would recommend the process.
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They gave a product and asked for multiple ways to improve it.
Business Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Capital One with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 62% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Business Analyst roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 757 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 Business Analyst according to 757 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 37%
Skills test: 15%
Phone interview: 13%
Personality test: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Presentation: 6%
Background check: 4%
Group panel interview: 4%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 2%
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