Part 1: on campus interview [1 BEHAVIORAL]
Applied through the university website and got a 1:1 interview with a data analyst manager. Purely behavioral. Some questions were...
1-How do you keep up with new technology?
2-Tell me a time when you had to learn a new technology?
3-(resume referenced) Tell me about a project you did? -wanted to know why I used certain languages/technology over others.
Email from recruiter the next week with an offer for an onsite. I couldn't make any of the dates given, so I requested for alternatives. Recruiter got back to me in a week with a same week interview (told on Tuesday, flew out on Thursday for Friday interview).
Flew out to Richmond, VA. They give you $50 stipend for food, free Lyft rides, nice room at the Hilton.
Part 2: Power day interview (onsite) [2 CASE; 1 BEHAVIORAL]
It was a half a day of interviewing. 3 interviews. They put you in your own room for the day where interviewers come to you. Schedule was given with interviewer names and times. Lounge with free food and drinks.
For the cases, they do give you paper to write on. It is so they can see, during the interview, your thought process. So if your handwriting is bad, they will ask you what you wrote.
Case 1:
Capital One wants to add on from their direct mail solicitation of credit cards to partnering up with a upscale retail department store named XYZ. Where the department store will ask customers if they want to sign up for a XYZ credit card provided by Capital One.
Given a bunch of facts about the partnership (i.e. how much it is to issue new card, average spending of card holder, percentage that Capital One gets from card holder spending, amount given to XYZ for each new approved card holder) determine average annual profit.
Provided different plans for amount given to XYZ for each new card holder, give a recommendation on which one to choose and why.
Case 2:
Recommend if your ecommerce software development company should take on a new client where the client would double your current demand.
Determine if current employees, based on rate of the number of lines of code they can process, can take on that demand.
And how would you allocate labor in a reasonable way give the hourly wage and overtime rate.
EQ/Behavioral:
1-Tell me a time where you succeeded/had an accomplishment
2-Tell me a time where you helped someone on a team
3-Tell me a time where you made a mistake at work
After the interviews, there was a buffet lunch with other DA interviewees and a current employee. The current DA showed us around. The Capital One campus was beautiful. There were walking trails, bikes to get around, bakery, coffee shops, a university-like cafeteria, pharmacy, gym, etc. Also saw where the current DA worked, lots of collaborative rooms and cubicles that are not assigned.
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Didn't get an offer because I messed up on a few equation setups. Though realize that it is up to the type of interviewer you have. Very much the luck of the draw.
During the first case, the guy made me feel so incompetent (sighing, reading the plaque on the wall instead of looking at me when i got stuck, closed their notebook where they were taking notes, leaning over and crossing out stuff on my paper for me, saying "like i said before...") for constantly double checking the meaning of business terms that I did not know. It got into my head and which made me blank on math (which isn't my strong point to begin with) down the road.
While the second case interviewer was very guiding and helpful when I fumbled, which allowed me to make a strong comeback.
Don't let them get into your head and accept the fact that interviewing is a unnatural setting. Just be confident that you are good cause they are spending thousands of dollars to get you on their campus to meet you.