Statistician applicants have rated the interview process at Capital One with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 49% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Statistician roles take an average of 18 days to get hired, when considering 61 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 Statistician according to 61 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 38%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 15%
Personality test: 11%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Group panel interview: 3%
Other: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Mar 2014
Interview
onsite interview- four interviews, including two cases interview, one role play, one behavioral (could be conducted in different orders).
Role play: given 15 mins to read through the material about a linear regression analysis, explain it to a business manager about it and make recommendations. it's about airplane delay problem.
Behavioral : three questions, all tell me about a time..... 1 the project you are most proud of 2 an example that you convince other people. 3 a time that you have to change your plan/ strategy immediately (not limited to professional area, could be an event in your life)
Case 1: Brazil walmart issue credit card , all about profit stuff, some calculation about marginal profit and market share. (didn't do well for this one, hardest one )
case 2: life insurance: given some parameters and values, try to figure out cutoff point, break-even will be used. (okay, it looks easy after you figure everything out) use math.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Nov 2015
Interview
30 mins phone interview and almost technical questions. I was invited to tell about the project I have done before and ask some questions regarding this project. Also, my programming language level was asked. There were also some standard technical questions like p-value, overfitting, cross-validation.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Capital One (Toronto, ON) in Jun 2015
Interview
Hiring through campus website. Got the first round interview 4 days after application. After the interview, wait 2-3 days to know the whether can be selected for the 2nd round interview. The second round interview is back-to-back interview without cases. A short case interview for about 20 minutes for the first round. Very similar to the one posted online as the example.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case interview. Begin with simple introduction on yourself and ends up with questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in Apr 2015
Interview
First round was phone interview, totally 5 questions, 4 of them were related to basic stat concepts but given in real world background. Got notice about the final round about three hours later. On-site was much harder than the first, more business focused rather than statistics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
P-value, Ci, missing value, fund raising.
life insurance, credit card verification, flight delay, behavioral.