I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Apr 2014
Interview
On campus interview with a senior business analyst out of the Richmond/DC combination of offices. Easygoing southern man who was an alumni of my school. Applied via my school's career center after attending a case workshop that gave strategies for how to approach Capital One's version of the "case interview." Interview was laid back and was about 5 minutes of introductions on both sides and then the meat was the case. General business "break-even" case where you must work through some algebra to reach a company's breakeven point. Then they layer in some new information (promo-pricing, etc.) and see how your answer changes and what you would do about it from a managing perspective. Interview ends with the classic "do you have any questions for me?" and you are out. All told at most 35-40 minutes. After the initial OCR interview you head to one of the campuses and do the same format of interview with slightly more senior people and/or complex cases. Doing a few cases by yourself beforehand will help you get the rhythm and format of these cases and should help you get the basics pretty easily and allow you some time to make some more novel comments about your answer(s).
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It is probably OK to be workman-like in your answer/approach the case(s) - no need to reinvent the wheel. However, don't be so vanilla in delivering the correct answer that you become relatively forgettable. There was probably one or two wrinkles of basic microecon that an interviewer may be impressed by that helps to add a bit more subjectivity to your final answer and business decision in the context of the case, but I am not sure how much it adds.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Capital One in Oct 2014
Interview
Interviewed for Business Analyst Intern. Applied through school website. In the lobby of the interview rooms there were a few recent graduates who had been working with Capital One for a few years taking questions and trying to make you feel comfortable.
Interviewer was a nice, young lady. Not too personal. We got right down to business with the case. Didn't get an offer but it was a great learning experience. Nothing too crazy about the interview. She answered my questions clearly and concisely.
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It was a case about a state considering to implement a new tool system on its highways.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Nov 2014
Interview
Had first round interviews on campus. Consisted of two quant based case interviews. Fly outs had three interviews at first, two were case based and one behavioral. Then they asked me to stay for one more interview, it was another case interview. Typical cases dealt with subscription policies and profitability analyses. Usually the cases had a correct answer to get to.
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Question 1
A case about introducing a new credit card product to the market.