I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One in Jan 2015
Interview
Coding online then if you pass, statistics and big data questions with a data scientist. Coding interview on hackerank is difficult. I believe that it is only suitable for a software engineer position; you have to use concepts from dynamic programming etc to solve the questions. Really irrelevant. After which you go on to be interviewed on stats and data analysis then if you pass you get invited to the office and interviewed again using case studies. So you get questions just as tough as a software engineer does, then get questions just as tough as a statistician does, then get questions just as tough as a business analyst does. What do they think, that data scientists are unicorns? It seems that the new process just got rolled out this year. I think that those who got through before this new process were lucky.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Capital One in Feb 2015
Interview
Was put in touch with a recruiter by a colleague, then after recruiter phone screen took an online programming test. The phone screen went really well, I explained about my current role (academic researcher in a STEM field), recruiter explained more about what they do at Capital One labs. Was given a link to the test, which can be taken only one time, and is a programming test. The problems are not difficult, but in my research I basically know the programming I need to get the job done...it's definitely not my strength. I didn't pass this test, based on the test cases during the test I think I got about 50%. If this test is passed, next comes a data challenge using an actual dataset. I wish I could have gone straight to that, I think I would have done much better on it than the programming test.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Work through problems on the hackerrank site, it's good preparation
I applied online. I interviewed at Capital One in Jan 2015
Interview
I applied the data scientist position on the company website. It took about a week to get a phone interview. The HR asked very basic question and let you introduce yourself, including academic and working experience, career plan. Beside also ask you to evaluate your programming skill about R, SAS, Python.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Ask about internship experience and school project experience.
which programming language is more comfortable with?
future career plan.