Solicité el puesto a través de la escuela superior o la universidad. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Capital One (Plano, TX) en mar 2009
Entrevista
Capital One recruited at my campus career fair where I had to sign up to take a skills test at a campus location on a later date. I believe they now administer this test online. The test mainly tested your math and quantitative skills. I also had to fill out an extensive personality test. After that I was invited to an on campus interview which was a case study. It was fairly easy if you just look over the sample case study on their website. I was emailed a few days later to schedule an office visit for Plano for further interviews. The office interviews conceived of 2 case interviews and 1 behavioral. Capital one provided sample behavioral questions that may be asked for those who have problems with behavioral. The 2 cases were more difficult than the case i was give on campus. There were about 8 other candidates that were flown in to interview for various positions, so the process was a bit intimidating.
Most of the cases required math. They would ask you to calculate the break even point for a product or develop a marketing strategy to improve a product's response rate. I heard from other candidates that applied for other positions that they were asked to describe CAPM in detail.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Tell me about a time when you took an unpopular stand to achieve your result.
Online Assesment: There were 3 questions of which one was something like finding minimum possible sum with OR, second one was related to BFS on graph and third one was Falling apples which was related to dp. Each question had 5 test cases. I had got 14 out off the 15 cases. After the oa, 46 students were shortlisted.
Round 1: This was another oa with 2 questions which were to be answered in 45 mins and had a weightage of 50 marks each. The oa was on hackerearth and answers were to be typed in a textbox.
First question was based on dp in grids (MaxGold problem). There was only one example given in question and we had to type only the function in the textbox.
Second question was a system design question which was similar to system design of google calender (calender design question). This question had 3 sub-questions:
What are some non-functional requirements and reason it out?
What is the DB schema for the question?
Write pseudo-code for sending invites to guests given startTime and endTime.
After this round, 22 people were shortlisted.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
An achievement i was proud of.
An incident where i helped someone going out of my way.
A mistake in the past and its learnings.
It was alright based on otehr companies slightly easier for better intern pay. Lower starting salary but good work life balance. Just show that you aren’t incompetent durijng the interview process
Powerday: I think that I got nervous and stuttered, probably won't get an offer from them.
Behavioral - talk about resume and deep dive.
Technical - Work with their code signal framework: a lot of technical questions (concepts) as well as coding.
Case Study - Gives you business scenario and you need to calculate a lot of numbers.
Role play - look at many slides and you need give them recommendation and analyze data, model, etc.