I applied online. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Capital One (McLean, VA) in Oct 2024
Interview
Capital One has a very streamlined process for the Product Management Interview loop. It is one of those interviews where you need to be very well prepared and its not one of those interviews that you wing. After the initial recruiter screen, a one hour Mini case is set up, where we go through the entire product lifecycle for a capital one application(Capital One Shopping, Auto Navigator, Mobile App). This is a Pass/Fail. The recruiter got back the same day and sets up Power Day.
-Product Skills
talk about your 0-1 product and answer behavioral questions related to that. Follow Capital One's HBTIL framework
-Product Discovery
DMV improvement case
-2 x Product Cases
These are MBB style consulting case interviews but more quant heavy- can use a calculator. They share a Power Playbook that goes over the math you'd need(profitability, break even, weighted average) and there are samples cases in their Youtube. I used Chatgpt to ask me questions interview style and make it increasingly harder. Practice talking your problem out loud while giving recommendations- that really helps! Most of the candidates trip up at one of these cases. This was majority of my preparation for Power Day. Case In Point and Cracking the PM interview were good tools to go about an all round prep. Lewis Lin's slack channel is a great place to find other PM aspirants and mock interview with!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself and why do you want to join C1
The interviewers were very professional and moved forward relatively quickly. I liked that you had a chance to engage with future colleagues before you joined the company to ensure a culture fit. Power Day went well, but if you choke on the math, you won't make it through. Thankfully, they will let you know soon afterwards if you didn't make it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you improve one of our current products?
Went through power day, 3 different interviews and presented an offer. Review all material online and they provide good guidance in recruiting on the type of case interviews. Design, analysis and product skills case types