I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Mar 2011
Interview
Resume Drop
Online skills and personality test
One on one case interviews
First Round (1 Case Question, at my campus):
Company is has a negative percent revenue, what would you do to fix the situation. Required basic math skills, the interviewer seemed to value creativity in open ended questions. Made some mistakes and the interviewer helped guide me.
Was offered to go to the final round later that night.
Final Round (2 Case Questions and a Behavioral Interview, at their campus in Richmond):
Case 1:
How to help a company losing money in a perfectly competitive environment. Just remember your into to microeconomics class and you'll have everything you need.
Behavioral:
Three "Tell me about a time you..." questions. Have some answers planned out to a variety of questions and be ready to adapt one to the the specific question asked.
Case 2:
Managing a credit card. It has been mentioned here before so just read around and you'll find all the tricks to this one.
Received offer the Monday after the Friday interviews.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One in Jan 2011
Interview
I attended first round interview for the Business Analyst position in Nottingham. It consisted of two case study interviews with managers from the company. The case studies were very analytical and numerical, focused more on problem solving skills rather than creativity, so in that sense they deferred quite substantially from case study interviews for consulting companies. Nothing too scary, just motivate your answers and when in doubt seek hints from interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Had to suggest strategies to improve the performance of a company after a merger of two other businesses.