I applied through university. I interviewed at Capital One in Sept 2013
Interview
Went to trivia night at a bar near my school and attended their info session. While at these events, I collected some business cards and kept in contact with those people. Then I got an interview. It is a 30-minute case on campus. They let you know fairly quickly if you move to the next round. I was not selected and they did not provide additional feedback. Their cases are usually about profitability, but it's not like your typical consulting case. It's more like doing a math problem with the interviewer and some calculations and graphs that you have to draw. They give you a calculator, but you will not need to use it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked if it is a good idea for Capital One to put a gym on campus and had to graph number of visitors who would come based on the price we charged for gym membership. He then asked for the slope and equation of the line. I accidentally put an extra zero in my answer so maybe that's why I didn't advance. Try to avoid making mistakes like I did. Then I had to graph price vs. profits for various prices and was asked the profit maximizing quantity based on the graph that I drew. I also had to get the breakeven.
1 online assessment followed by Power Day with 1 product and 2 cases. Power Day was quite tricky with concepts being combined and tested in different forms. Staying calm and taking in every word is crucial in keeping up with the casing.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Product: name 6 ways to improve a digital product of your choice
The interviewer was friendly he asked me Quantitative questions on a streaming platform, too much math involved. I did not reach the answer though the interviewer tried to help so got the rejection.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer was friendly he asked me Quantitative questions on a streaming platform, too much math involved. I did not reach the answer though the interviewer tried to help so got the rejection.
I thought I did really well, but they emailed me back in a few hours, rejecting me. This was for the online test before the power day, and they didn't even give me a score.