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Cognizant Associate Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers for Experienced

Updated 6 May 2023

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Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Apr 2023.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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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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2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic Data science related questions on Overfitting, classification models.
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. It was managerial round, More about how you will handle work and questions on project.
4

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary negotiation

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Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Sep 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Gave one easy question and asked what will be the output
  • Q2. Leetcode 2 sum question

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I was pretty much sure that I would pass L1 round and hoping for L2 round. I was interviewing for Generative AI Engineer. It was full 1 hr. The interviewer was less experienced than me. He asked me about my current work and focused more on previous work. I gave 80% correct answers and still did not make it. Don't know what they were expecting from me. Then I thought, maybe they are just taking the interview for the name sake. Sometimes, rejections are baseless.
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Jul 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Deep questions about Machine learning, Deep learning, Generative AI, the working of transformers etc.
2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Deep questions about Machine learning and deep learning with projects done. This was a client round.
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary discussion, project discussion, why change? Why Wipro

Data Scientist Interview Questions

Infosys user image Anonymous

posted on 30 May 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Apr 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (9 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain XGBoost algoritm
  • Q2. XgBoost algorithm has 10-20 features. How are the splits decided, on which feature are they going to be divided?
  • Q3. Do you have any experience on cloud platform?
  • Q4. What is entropy, information gain?
  • Q5. What is hypothesis testing?
  • Q6. Explain precision and recall, when are they used in which scenario?
  • Q7. What is data imbalance?
  • Q8. What is SMOTE? Do you have any experience working on Time Series? Code analysis of global variable?
  • Q9. Find 5th highest salary in every department. What are window functions Difference between union and union all Difference between delete and truncate.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare basics well. Go through the top questions asked for SQL,Python,Data Science.
Well versed with resume projects and concepts used in it.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Data Scientist Interview Questions

TCS user image Anonymous

posted on 14 May 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Cosine similarity
  • Q2. What is difference between recall and precission
  • Q3. How to remove stop words and how it works
  • Q4. Whats the goal of project
2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Pipeline design

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain a project written in resume.
2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain a project from you resume.
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. What are your strengths?
Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
Selected  Selected

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Difference between supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Q2. What is sigmoid function

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
2
 Poor
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is overfitting and underfitting
  • Q2. What are LLM Models

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare for python questions

Skills evaluated in this interview

Data Scientist Interview Questions

IBM user image Rohit Mishra

posted on 13 May 2024

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Nov 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Can you discuss one of your project in detail and why have you chosen those specific model to start with?

Data Scientist Interview Questions

Genpact user image Anonymous

posted on 10 Apr 2023

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Apr 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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
2

Case Study Round

DS related Case study and discussion

3

Coding Test Round

Python code example test where they will ask basic python or sql questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be prepared with statistics and previous projects that you have worked on.

Cognizant Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Cognizant Associate Data Scientist interview for experienced candidates?
Cognizant interview process for experienced candidates usually has 4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Cognizant interview process for experienced candidates are Technical, Resume Shortlist and HR.
How to prepare for Cognizant Associate Data Scientist interview for experienced candidates?
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 Cognizant. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Cognizant expect are Data Science and Vendor Management.

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