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 through an employee referral. I interviewed at Capital One (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2026
Interview
I had an interview with the hiring manager, and she started to ask about my CV and went through the details of each project, and also asked additional questions about each project, what would happen if we do this or that
The recruiter call me and after a 30 min meeting with HR they set me up for interview with the manager, but no one showed up and they never responded my email
Two technical rounds with case studies and coding + SQL. Coding was just LC easy level and SQL was a bit more challenging but being comfortable with all the key words should be good enough.