Acuity Knowledge Partners Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers for Experienced

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Interview at 11 pm. Stressed environment, close to stress interview.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
1.Online Test
2. GD
3. PI(HR)
GD TOPICS :
Topic 1 : How can education system benefit from interdisciplinary methods.
Topic 2 : Interconnected problems in the field of movie making.
INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE:
So you can speak German? Describe MS Dhoni in german. They opened Google Translate to counter check the words they wanted to be translated in both Deutsch and Spanish. Your profile speaks of an inclination towards software skills, why do you want to join an analytics company? Justify your action in two reasons as to why are you sitting here interviewing for the post of a data scientist rather than apply for a software engineer when this CV speaks highly of computer science? What is Finite Element Method? Explain. How relevant is your work in Computer Vision? Breakdown the tagline of Audi and translate accordingly. What is "Technik für Mobel" ? What are your current projects? Answer : Microsoft Xbox Kinect, Gesture Recognition. Counter question : But at Musimga you'd be doing far simpler stuff.? Counter suggestion : Why don't you go for MS?


Tips: Keep your cool during counter questions. Prepare your profile and CV well. Rest all is your hard work and groomed personal talents and acquired skills you learnt over the internet.

Skills: Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Spanish, German, Finite Element Modeling - FEM, Foreign Language
College Name: NIT Raipur
Funny Moments: Another HR enters in the midst of my interview and asks with bewildered amazement : What language is he speaking?
The other HR, "German".

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Interview was purely technical. Having technical knowledge in analytics and good command on matrix transformations probability and statistics helps.
Tips: Before interview look into basic concepts of analytics such as regression, classification, clustering, etc...

Skills: Probability And Statistics, Ability To Analyse
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: As it is a start up based out of Boston I think I will be a good opportunity to network and also learn about how a company handles data.
Funny Moments: Hr was a North Indian and I am South Indian. There is slight problem for him in pronouncing few words. I had to ask him to repeat the question twice before I answered. It turns out to be a very simple question but we Both struggled

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Ask clearly for job role they said data scientist but currently I am doing MLOPS

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your projects well and questions around that

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident on the skills that your are showing in your CV. Be truthful if you don't know anything and don't bush around. If you are okay working for more than 14hrs and also in the weekends then please go ahead :)

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Go through the resume in detail and focus on explaining the projects and algorithms worked on.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Advanced ML questions will be there

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - This is for two types of candidates. If you're from engineering background(btech/be) prepare well for programming round. The rest is taken care with minimal knowledge. If you're not from engineering background don't waste your time and effort in attending the interviews. They will finally reject you even though you are qualified in all the rounds and will select an engineering guy.