Student Name: Mridhul Iyer

Current Course: MSQE

Degree Before Masters: B.E. Mechanical Engineering

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 case interviews

Questions Asked in Online Aptitude Test (if applicable):
Data interpretation type questions consisting of tables, graphs

Number of Interview Rounds:
2

Questions Asked in Round 1:
(I don’t remember all the values) Consider a company which harvesys and packages the wheat and transports it to the market for wheat farmers (they do not sell the wheat) and they charge $0.15 per bushel of wheat. 1 acre of land yields 30 bushels of wheat. To harvest and transport the firm requires combine harvesters which costs some given amount and harvests a given number of acres per day. And trucks which costs an some amount and transports some amount of bushels per day. Given 2 trucks and 2 compounds and 1 month time I had to find my profit for 6400 acres of land. Then I had to find profits for all possible values from 0 till 12800 acres where I can vary my trucks and compounds and graph it. There were other small questions in between

Questions Asked in Round 2:
CapOne can operate either one of two methods to process their applicants. Either using a live chat or via a form. Form is more efficient but has lesser conversion rate. I had to find which method to employ based on various constraints like number of employees, number of queries in the website etc. Given the salary of an employee.

Questions Asked in Further Rounds:
NA

Job Role Experience:
NA

Suggestions for Candidates (including resources, books, websites):
Just interact a lot with the interviewer. Communicate each and every step well. Take criticism well and correct immediately when they point out.

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