I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Nov 2013
Interview
First round at University, simple 30 minute case which I didn't think I did too well on. Nevertheless, got a call that they wanted me to fly down to Washington D.C. to interview at HQ in McLean, VA. This interview consisted of 2 case interviews and 1 behavioral, and one "break" interview somewhere in the day. I was done by 12:30 noon and then had lunch with a few of the entry-level Business Analysts.
Overall, the entire process was very professional. I felt the interview questions were average in difficulty but were sometimes unfairly tricky in what they wanted. For example, one time I was asked to a break-even calculation by setting profit to our level of profit before the implementation of a new strategy/business model. The next time I was asked to to another break-even calculation, I started to do this same approach, but then the interviewer corrected me and said that I was supposed to do it with profit equal to 0. This was obviously pretty inconsistent.
Although I thought I did well with some minor errors and solid answers to the qualitative questions, I did not get the offer. From what I heard of other students there that same day, neither did many of them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you feel about this? (when talking about the answer you just came up with to a problem). It is hard to tell what they are looking for exactly.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They gave a product and asked for multiple ways to improve it.