I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Nov 2015
No offer
Negative experience
Average interview
Application
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX)
Interview
1st round phone interview
1. tell me about yourself
2. resume questions
3. basic stat concept
4. applied stat methods, like GLM
5. missing data
6. model selection
2nd round onsite
1. 3 behavior questions: teamwork, persuasion, innovation etc
2. flight problem. basically it's a glm.
3. two case interviews
List 3 sources of revenues and expense for a bank.
given prior, likelihood, calculate posterior prob. bayesian theorem
the other is break-even point. be careful about unit conversion. If you find it impossible to calculate sth, just tell them what data do you need and how you collect those data. some question is open-ended.
THINK OUT LOUD in the case interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
flight problem. I though it was pretty easy. But I found it difficult to explain those stat concept to someone who knew little about statistics.
And when I told him centering is one possible way to deal with collinearity, that employee was shocked and said: I have never heard that before.
....idiot...
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 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.