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3m Digital Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 8 Oct 2022

3m Digital Data Scientist Interview Experiences

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Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

30 mins behavior question about BQ.

Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Go through your resume
  • Q2. ML technology and some metrics

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your story and details. There are a lot of follow-ups

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How does fbpropher forecasting model works and how is can be used to forecsst trafffic
  • Ans. 

    fbprophet is a forecasting model developed by Facebook that uses time series data to make predictions.

    • fbprophet is an open-source forecasting tool developed by Facebook's Core Data Science team.

    • It is based on an additive model where non-linear trends are fit with yearly, weekly, and daily seasonality, plus holiday effects.

    • fbprophet can be used to forecast traffic by providing historical data on traffic patterns and usi...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Thourough with maths of forecasting techniques and parameter tuning
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic ml related questions,past project discussion
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. AI, ML related, statistical analysis of the graph.
Round 3 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Work culture, check
Round 4 - cross functional lob 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Work culture, project discussion, scenario based questions
Round 5 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic HR questions, why sap salary discussions

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Sep 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic DS question like how to handle missing features
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Case study based questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Its very easy interview. Can easily crack if we have very basic knowledge in python, DS
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic pandas questions on dataframes
  • Q2. Some quiz questions
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How can Logistic regression be applied for multiclasstext classification
  • Ans. 

    Logistic regression can be applied for multiclasstext classification by using one-vs-rest or softmax approach.

    • One-vs-rest approach: Train a binary logistic regression model for each class, treating it as the positive class and the rest as the negative class.

    • Softmax approach: Use the softmax function to transform the output of the logistic regression into probabilities for each class.

    • Evaluate the model using appropriate...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How to ensure scalability
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

45 mins.

questions based on basic string manipulation but not a straightforward task

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Given a situation how do you handle different cases
  • Q2. Given a proab stats question

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your projects well.
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain L1 & L2 regularization
  • Ans. 

    L1 & L2 regularization are techniques used in machine learning to prevent overfitting by adding a penalty term to the cost function.

    • L1 regularization adds the absolute values of the coefficients as penalty term (Lasso regression)

    • L2 regularization adds the squared values of the coefficients as penalty term (Ridge regression)

    • L1 regularization encourages sparsity in the model, while L2 regularization tends to shrink the c...

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  • Q2. Explain error metric
  • Ans. 

    Error metric is a measure used to evaluate the performance of a model by comparing predicted values to actual values.

    • Error metric quantifies the difference between predicted values and actual values.

    • Common error metrics include Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and R-squared.

    • Lower values of error metric indicate better performance of the model.

    • Error metric helps in und...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Where do you see yourself

Skills evaluated in this interview

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How many rounds are there in 3m Digital Data Scientist interview?
3m Digital interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the 3m Digital interview process are Resume Shortlist, Aptitude Test and Technical.

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