Student Name: Charvi Dhruve

Current Course: MSQE

Degree Before Masters: B.Sc. Economics(Hons)

Company Name: Capital One
Job Role: Business Analyst Intern
Duration of the Job Role: 2-3 Month Internship

Hiring Process Overview:
Aptitude test followed by 2 rounds of interview

Questions Asked in Online Aptitude Test (if applicable):
Question were based on Data Interpretation and Logical Reasoning

Number of Interview Rounds:
2

Questions Asked in Round 1:
It was a Case Interview. A person wishes to build a manufacturing plant that makes petroleum products. Raw materials are to be imported(shipped) from the Middle East. Based on the prices given for the different raw materials and other data I had to calculate the profitability of the venture. The second part required me to calculate which combination of raw materials would be cost-effective if certain prices and the proportions in which they are required is changed.

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Job Role Experience:
Building a framework to automate identifying customer pain points. Required researching how technology can be used for the company use-case and demonstrating the implementation using Python. Reviewed an existing model to discern if it can leverage or be leveraged by the framework aforementioned.

Suggestions for Candidates (including resources, books, websites):
Case Study Preparation: Case in Point IIM A, B, C and ISB casebooks Victor Cheng’s YT channel Case Compendium

Quant Preparation: Quant Job - Mark Joshi Heard on the Street A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance 50 Challenging Problems in Probability

Econometrics: Wooldridge Gujarati

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