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 online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Capital One
Interview
The interview process contains a case review along with behavioral questions from several people in the company. Historically there have been three separate rounds of casing in the last interview day.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Capital One in Jan 2019
Interview
One hour case interview over the phone, and then they flew me out to McLean, VA for a super day. The super day consisted of two case interviews and then a product interview
I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Nov 2018
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter through my school's job portal. From there I applied and then was sent a written case interview. After that, I was contacted by a recruiter saying I made it to the in-person interviews. They paid for my hotel and flight to VA. Three in-person interviews that lasted an hour each and then lunch with current people in the program. Got an email 2 weeks later saying they decided on other candidates.