Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Capital One (Richmond, VA) nel mese di apr 2016
Colloquio
They first send you a dataset challenge which has a regression problem and an exploratory analysis problem. After that there's on site interview which has three rounds.
1.Behavioral interview, which had three questions. Nothing fancy, things about your experience with teamwork and your innovation etc.
2. Case interview, which was similar to the example they have on their website. Some simple arithmetic and some business logic. By this time I was still waiting to have at least one conversation about machine learning and data analysis, nothing.
3. Role play interview is just a technical interview in disguise. I think this is where I lost it. The woman who interviewed me was a statistician who had no appreciation for "modern machine learning models". She thought k-means was modern (ahem). Anyways, she started this ten minutes long rant about how linear regression is still the most robust of models and how modern machine learning research is ruining all that.
I didn't get the offer. But I don't think I'd have taken it if I was offered the job. They call themselves innovative, but they're still a bank! a little phony.
I asked a lot of questions about their work culture and it was clear that they still have all the qualities of a bank, so not a great place for computer engineers. Was a waste of time, really.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
If you use random forest, how can you explain why it's working to your investors? Isn't linear regression the best?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite segnalazione di un dipendente. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Capital One (Dallas, TX) nel mese di gen 2026
Colloquio
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
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Capital One (Toronto)
Colloquio
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.