I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Dallas, TX) in May 2010
Interview
Applied online and got contacted by a recruiter. Did some online testing (verbal / numerical) then got flown out for an onsite interview. Interview was difficult but not impossible. The day is broken up into 2 cases 1 behavioral and a recheck of your online testing. They then take you around their campus and you talk to people that work there.
Don't worry about the behavioral interview, its just STAR method and I'm pretty sure its designed to just calm you down in between the case interviews. The cases vary but I got one about direct mail vs phone calling to contact new customers for a capital one credit card. The interviewer was a bit tricky and made me second guess stuff, but its not hard to handle. The last question on that case was how to decide between direct mail and phone calling when there's a limited budget and audience. You have to write an equation that links the 2 variables and then explain it to him.
The other case was about dominos pizza and how they're considering changing from a free pizza if delivered late model to a discounted pizza if delivered late model. Really straight forward, don't over think this one and you should be fine. You have to calculate how much % demand and supply changes to make the 2 systems equal.
Overall the company seems great, and offers a lot of benefits. The interview process are hard, but I was told by a VP there that if you don't get it, you can just apply again in a few months and you go thru the process all over again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For the direct mail / phone call question they give you a set of numbers where you decide to go with one but then a budget constraint is added where it makes sense to change to the other. They offer another audience constraint and the answer changes again. They then ask you to justify your answer and why you're flip flopping so much. Then they ask you to make a equation so that you can decide which to choose based off of the values of the 2 constraints.
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Capital One (Richmond, VA) in May 2010
Interview
I applied online through my school's online job board. Got an e-mail inviting me to take a series of online test. There was a math and a verbal section. The math one has you do calculations using data from various charts. The verbal is similar to the SAT. Then I got a call about setting up the in person interview. I had to fly down to Virginia to the Capital One campus. I had one behavioral interview and 2 cases. The behavioral is your typical "tell me about a time" interview. The cases were essentially a long word problem that you do with someone feeding you the information. Go over your algebra and calculus before the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you used logic to solve a problem
I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Capital One (Bengaluru) in Apr 2010
Interview
it consists of a aptitude test of about 35 question to complete in 30 minutes time frame.
Then their will be two round of case interview. It normally will consist of mathematical calculations.
They will generally give you case studies around their business of operation like, credit card fraud detection etc.