where to make good $, work from home frequently and maintain work-life balance

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Work for yourself. YOu could be a consultant or something like that. Take on projects and you can choose your workload, and that translates into compensation.

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Anonymous wrote:Cap One, if you can get through hiring process. DH pulls in about $150k/year. Leaves house at 8, home by 5:30. Works at home pretty much whenever he wants.

It's the hiring process that kills most. Maybe one in ten make it through.

What is so unique about their hiring process and/or qualifications they seek? I have never applied there, but would not have thought they are different than anywhere else comparable.

There's a lot of math involved. Most people can't solve the cases. It's comparable to an interview at McKinsey or Bain or BCG in terms of style and content. You have to intuit the solution, set up the proper equations and be able to solve them correctly. It's not just a behavioral interview (although there's that too). A hypothetical interview might start with a store selling shoes. They'll provide some data like the quantity of shoes you sell, the price, and the cost. They'll give you some graphs or tables highlighting the overall market, some of it relevant, some of it probably not. Then they'll throw out something like "You are considering a price decrease of 10%. The price elasticity of demand is ...." And ask you what you think. I'd venture fully half of the people we interview can't get past step 1, even with a definition to elasticity of demand given to them. If you then ask them to figure out what % of customers would have to buy 3 shoes in order for you to be OK with a 20% decrease in price, it's often far too difficult a structure for most to figure out.

Is that for every position they are seeking?

H1bs are used for many IT positions

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Capital-One/93519.htm

Capital One, National Association has filed 960 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 137 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2013 to 2015. Capital One, National Association was ranked 115 among all visa sponsors.

And? That has to do with the interview process how?

Or are you just bitching about h1bs in general ?

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Anonymous wrote:Cap One, if you can get through hiring process. DH pulls in about $150k/year. Leaves house at 8, home by 5:30. Works at home pretty much whenever he wants.

It's the hiring process that kills most. Maybe one in ten make it through.

What is so unique about their hiring process and/or qualifications they seek? I have never applied there, but would not have thought they are different than anywhere else comparable.

There's a lot of math involved. Most people can't solve the cases. It's comparable to an interview at McKinsey or Bain or BCG in terms of style and content. You have to intuit the solution, set up the proper equations and be able to solve them correctly. It's not just a behavioral interview (although there's that too). A hypothetical interview might start with a store selling shoes. They'll provide some data like the quantity of shoes you sell, the price, and the cost. They'll give you some graphs or tables highlighting the overall market, some of it relevant, some of it probably not. Then they'll throw out something like "You are considering a price decrease of 10%. The price elasticity of demand is ...." And ask you what you think. I'd venture fully half of the people we interview can't get past step 1, even with a definition to elasticity of demand given to them. If you then ask them to figure out what % of customers would have to buy 3 shoes in order for you to be OK with a 20% decrease in price, it's often far too difficult a structure for most to figure out.

Is that for every position they are seeking?

Many if not most. The expectation on how you do varies a bit by job. But any business job - finance, analytics, biz dev, general management, etc - will have this. As will many of the more senior technical roles or those that span biz and tech - product managers, product owners, product directors / designers. All of the more quant roles as well: data analyst, business analyst, statistician. I know the ops roles do as well, although I think those cases skew more ops heavy (I.e capacity planning etc). The core strategy team (which is small) and our client development roles all have these as well.

Not sure about project management, or HR positions - maybe there's some there that don't.

The reason is capital one is a business built fundamentally on analytics - it's part of the culture and permeates across roles, etc.

There used to be a math test you had to take before you even interviewed, I think they've now done away with that.

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H1bs are used for many IT positions

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/Capital-One/93519.htm

Capital One, National Association has filed 960 labor condition applications for H1B visa and 137 labor certifications for green card from fiscal year 2013 to 2015. Capital One, National Association was ranked 115 among all visa sponsors.

And? That has to do with the interview process how?

Or are you just bitching about h1bs in general ?

H1Bs are "screened" by the consulting company and do not go through the same rigorous interview. The quality of this segment of Capital 1 workforce is therefore quite low and the products they produce are as well.

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Any consulting gig or defense contractor

The average mid-level person makes around 150ish

You might have to work on site full time for your first gig but after that many people work from home

Sometimes it depends on the client but most people have not problem with contractors working from home at least once a week and maybe more

Signed a non-type A who laughs at the type As who work too much

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I am the Exec Dir for a $1m academic association. I have a 4 day in office work week (36 hours) but work from home as needed (as do my employees. 6 - 8 weeks a year leading up to our conference is busy and hectic but everything else is very reasonable. Salary is about $120k/year + benefits.

Keep in mind that I stay relatively connected when I am off -- but I don't find that it intrudes on my everyday life.

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Anonymous wrote:Fed Gov. I am a non supervisory GS 15. WAH three days/week. Make over 140k.

Damn that sounds nice!

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Not many non supervisory 15s around.

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It really depends on what you do, what's your current role? Otherwise these responses will be too all over to be helpful to you.

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Anonymous wrote:Cap One, if you can get through hiring process. DH pulls in about $150k/year. Leaves house at 8, home by 5:30. Works at home pretty much whenever he wants.

It's the hiring process that kills most. Maybe one in ten make it through.

What is so unique about their hiring process and/or qualifications they seek? I have never applied there, but would not have thought they are different than anywhere else comparable.

There's a lot of math involved. Most people can't solve the cases. It's comparable to an interview at McKinsey or Bain or BCG in terms of style and content. You have to intuit the solution, set up the proper equations and be able to solve them correctly. It's not just a behavioral interview (although there's that too). A hypothetical interview might start with a store selling shoes. They'll provide some data like the quantity of shoes you sell, the price, and the cost. They'll give you some graphs or tables highlighting the overall market, some of it relevant, some of it probably not. Then they'll throw out something like "You are considering a price decrease of 10%. The price elasticity of demand is ...." And ask you what you think. I'd venture fully half of the people we interview can't get past step 1, even with a definition to elasticity of demand given to them. If you then ask them to figure out what % of customers would have to buy 3 shoes in order for you to be OK with a 20% decrease in price, it's often far too difficult a structure for most to figure out.

Is that for every position they are seeking?

I applied for a communications job and got questions like this. Brutal.

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Anonymous wrote:Cap One, if you can get through hiring process. DH pulls in about $150k/year. Leaves house at 8, home by 5:30. Works at home pretty much whenever he wants.

It's the hiring process that kills most. Maybe one in ten make it through.

I'm curious about this. I've heard that it's tough, but I've also heard from some folks looking to hire at Capital One and they seem to have a lot of vacancies. Are there any stats available on the pass rates? Why so low?

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Anonymous wrote:Cap One, if you can get through hiring process. DH pulls in about $150k/year. Leaves house at 8, home by 5:30. Works at home pretty much whenever he wants.

It's the hiring process that kills most. Maybe one in ten make it through.

What is so unique about their hiring process and/or qualifications they seek? I have never applied there, but would not have thought they are different than anywhere else comparable.

There's a lot of math involved. Most people can't solve the cases. It's comparable to an interview at McKinsey or Bain or BCG in terms of style and content. You have to intuit the solution, set up the proper equations and be able to solve them correctly. It's not just a behavioral interview (although there's that too). A hypothetical interview might start with a store selling shoes. They'll provide some data like the quantity of shoes you sell, the price, and the cost. They'll give you some graphs or tables highlighting the overall market, some of it relevant, some of it probably not. Then they'll throw out something like "You are considering a price decrease of 10%. The price elasticity of demand is ...." And ask you what you think. Id venture fully half of the people we interview can't get past step 1, even with a definition to elasticity of demand given to them. If you then ask them to figure out what % of customers would have to buy 3 shoes in order for you to be ok with a 20% decrease in price, it's often far too difficult a structure for most to figure out.

That is a sad commentary on our education system. Do you require these case questions for the communications / social media roles too?

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Anonymous wrote:I am the Exec Dir for a $1m academic association. I have a 4 day in office work week (36 hours) but work from home as needed (as do my employees. 6 - 8 weeks a year leading up to our conference is busy and hectic but everything else is very reasonable. Salary is about $120k/year + benefits.

Keep in mind that I stay relatively connected when I am off -- but I don't find that it intrudes on my everyday life.

Similar poster to above except Exec. Dir of a state chapter trade association. I telework 90% of the time and have Friday's off. Salary is $110k plus bonus (usually another $10k).

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Anonymous wrote:Cap One, if you can get through hiring process. DH pulls in about $150k/year. Leaves house at 8, home by 5:30. Works at home pretty much whenever he wants.

I did not think they paid that well. What role is he in?

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Anonymous wrote:Fed Gov. I am a non supervisory GS 15. WAH three days/week. Make over 140k.

Damn that sounds nice!

It is. Not perfect every day (of course), but I don't think I will ever leave my current office bc it would be too hard to give all this up.