CapOne BA Final Round

Hi all,

Just want to thank the folks that commented in the previous thread -- your advice greatly helped yesterday on the interview.

I'm wondering if anyone has experience with the following situation at a Business Analyst final round at Capital One.

I was presented with the first case and stumbled through it a little bit -- I got the answer but I wasn't quite "in the zone" and I was really nervous. My following behavioral interviews were spot-on, and although I know they don't weigh too much, I really nailed all three questions...it was about the best behavioral interview I've ever had. My second case went really well, I didn't stumble at all and my analysis was pretty good. I missed one little aspect of the analysis but the interviewer seemed really pleased and we had a great conversation after the case. I think overall I did well on it.

We break for lunch and I'm overall feeling pretty bad because I think the first case is seriously keeping me down. The question unfortunately involved some knowledge of finance beyond profit models and it took me a while to realize how to approach the question since I have no finance background. Maybe they'll take that into account...

In any event, they asked me to stay for a third case interview and basically said something along the lines of "we didn't have the opportunity to do one with you before you arrived, so we'd like to have a third". I'd read about this a little bit -- most people say if they ask you for a third case, they're on the fence about you but are interested enough to at least offer the opportunity to ace a third one.

The interviewer was a VP, super nice guy, and I aced the case 100%. Everything was spot on, I had my game face on, I was super confident, the case was open-ended similar to a MBB case (I was more prepared for these anyhow...) and I was really able to drive a ton of points of why employing the particular strategy was a good idea and had the numbers to back it up. I can't think of anything I did wrong, I did all the math quickly and didn't backtrack at all, it was just a smooth, quick progression. The interviewer and I talked for a few minutes, after which he thanked me, left, and I headed out to the airport.

Basically now I'm in anxiety-mode because I'm wondering what exactly the third case meant. It was with a senior officer (and they told me it would be...) so maybe they were testing my skills under pressure. I think that they realized the improvement between the first and second case and thought that the first case didn't go that well because a) it was my first case ever in an interview, and b) I was pretty nervous. By the third case I was very calm and able to deliver all of the answers very effectively. So all-in-all, people who may know, should I be feeling good about this? Of course it's impossible to say until Mon/Tues when I get the call, but thinking the day over and over in my head is driving me up a wall. I sent thank-you notes to all interviewers as well as my recruiter yesterday at about 4:30pm, so I've got that base covered.

Thanks guys.