I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Capital One (Dallas, TX) in Aug 2016
Interview
First, I was contacted by a Sr. Technical Recruiter on LinkedIn (I hadn't applied for this position). Then, I had a HR interview with the recruiter and selected to go to the next round which was a Technical Interview with a Sr. Statistician. There were supposed to be two more rounds: one was a hackerrank code test and then a data science challenge (datasets would be provided by them) before moving on the F2F rounds. I did not go past the Technical Interview.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (Plano, TX) in Oct 2016
Interview
They contacted me directly on a website. I went straight to the data science programming challenge (based on taxi trips dataset). After that they call me to interview on-site at Plano, TX. The interview was a case interview, then a behavioral interview, a 15 minutes break, and a role interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Case Interview:
the case is the car finance loan.
- what are revenues and expenses
- given a model that predicts when a customer is good (loan should be approved) or bad (loadn should be decline) find out: 1. the probability that the customer is good given the model predicts good 2. the probability that the customer is bad given the model is good 3. given a pentile graph of # of checked off loans / # of loans what is a better model than the current; what is the best model.
Behavioral interview:
- tell me about a time that you had to deal with changing objectives in your team/project
- tell me about a time that you had to deal with unexpected problems in your project
- tell me about a time that you had to persuase somebody
Role interview:
the case is a report on air company with low percentage of flight on time. Read the report an give an evaluation of it and some reccomendations to your boss. 15 minutes to read the report and remove anything unecessary or spot errors. 20 minutes to present it to your boss. 15 minutes to discuss afterwards from data scientist to data scientist.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Capital One in Sep 2016
Interview
Applied online through the capital one portal. Received an email saying I need to take the data science challenge (NYC taxi dataset). The questions were of average difficulty and was told to submit over the weekend (5 days). Was able to answer all the questions but still got a reject two days later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were based on the data set which they had given. (Analysis stuff mostly)