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American Express Data Science Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 13 Jan 2025

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Data Science Analyst Interview Questions & Answers

user image Haifa Nisar Desai (B20BB013)

posted on 13 Jan 2025

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

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain Backpropagation
  • Ans. 

    Backpropagation is a method used in neural networks to update the weights by calculating the gradient of the loss function.

    • Backpropagation involves calculating the gradient of the loss function with respect to each weight in the network.

    • The gradient is then used to update the weights in the network in order to minimize the loss function.

    • This process is repeated iteratively until the network converges to a set of weight...

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I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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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 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Please introduce yourself.
  • Q2. Why American Express?
Round 3 - Case Study 

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - No prior experience with SQL and coding needed. 12 week training

Data Science Analyst Interview Questions Asked at Other Companies

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Q3. Can we use logistic regression for multi class classification ?
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Q5. What is PII, give some examples

Data Science Analyst Interview Questions & Answers

user image Ayush Tripathi

posted on 22 Jan 2023

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Jan 2022. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Fundamental SQL queries and operations
  • Q2. Basics of A/B testing
  • Q3. Project/Resume based questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be well versed with the JD and your resume. The questions were easy only since its an analyst profile.

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Jun 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on Pandas, Stats, and basics of NLTK.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Manager took the interview. Started with CV walkthrough. Projects asked in details.
  • Q2. ML and DL questions asked. Backtracked from LSTM to Regression. Loss functions, algorithm explanations, caveats, everything asked. Was a detailed round.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for American Express Data Science Analyst interview:
  • NLP
  • Pandas
  • SQL
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Have basics of ML revised, and if possible also go through SQL joins as well as Pandas & basics of NLP

American Express interview questions for designations

 Data Science Intern

 (1)

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 (1)

 Data Analyst

 (11)

 Senior Data Analyst

 (1)

 Data Analyst Intern

 (1)

 Data Scientist

 (3)

 Analyst

 (30)

 Senior Data Scientist

 (1)

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Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Multiple choice questions with calculus and statistics and 3 programming questions
  • Q2. There was a derivative of a function to do

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't take long doing the multiple choices
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Multiple choice questions with calculus and statistics and 3 programming questions
  • Q2. There was a derivative of a function to do

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't take long doing the multiple choices

American Express Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in American Express Data Science Analyst interview?
American Express interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the American Express interview process are Resume Shortlist, Technical and One-on-one Round.
How to prepare for American Express Data Science Analyst interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at American Express. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at American Express expect are Career Development, SQL, Machine Learning, Risk Management and Finance.
What are the top questions asked in American Express Data Science Analyst interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the American Express Data Science Analyst interview -

  1. Explain Backpropagat...read more
  2. ML and DL questions asked. Backtracked from LSTM to Regression. Loss functions,...read more
  3. Questions on Pandas, Stats, and basics of NL...read more

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