Capital One Internship Experience
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.
Questions Asked in Round 2:
Questions Asked in Further Rounds:
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
Additional Resources:
Previous Job Role (if applicable):