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Updated 12 Dec 2024

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 9 Dec 2024

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jun 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Basic aptitude , tech aptitude

2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is overfitting
  • Q2. How to handle missing values

Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 12 Dec 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

I was interviewed in Nov 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Project related questions
  • Q2. Coding questions

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 20 Mar 2024

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Feb 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Cross validation
  • Q2. How to handle imbalanced dataset

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - most questions will be from your projects/work exp

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 8 Oct 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Statistics based questions

2

Case Study Round

Basic case study any topic

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 30 May 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 -
Duration
 -
Result
 -

1 Interview Round

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Sql, python, ml based questions

Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 6 Dec 2022

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Hard
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I was interviewed in Nov 2022.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Difference between bagging and boosting
  • Q2. How would you measure model effectiveness without using any of confusion matrix metrics given the data is highly imbalanced
  • Q3. What is Blue score in Regression

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for EXL Service Data Scientist interview:
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistics
  • Regression Analysis
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare for an end-to-end ML case study. Model evaluation metrics and model building approaches

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 5 Sep 2024

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Sep 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Statistics basic questions
  • Q2. Linear regression vs logistics regression
  • Q3. Cross entropy vs binary cross

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 27 Jun 2024

Interview experience
3
 Average
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Jun 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on Data Analysis
2

Behavioral Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions to check the culture fit

Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 11 Jan 2022

I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in Jul 2021.

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be prepared with one use case in story telling way

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

Nielsen user image Anonymous

posted on 6 Apr 2024

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 6-8 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2023.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

Sql, python, Statistics mcq, Aptitude test. These were medium level questions.

2

Technical Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. SQL and python, time complexity
  • Q2. Make 2 lists a=[1,2,3,4] b=[9,8,5,5,2,3,3,4,1,1,10,9,2,3,4,10,10,9,7,7,8] Write a program to remove duplicate of b and keep only those elements of b which are n...read more
  • Q3. SQL question Remove duplicate from a table tab1
3

Case Study Round

Given 2 case studies on data science and asked different possibilities to improve the models.

How to work with imbalance dataset.
How to remove null values, what is features engineering.
What is PCA
What is the working of XGBOOST

4

Project discussion Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. What was last project, tell me in detail. There were different technical questions related to my project

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident and practice SQL, python, mainly pandas and numpy. Should have good knowledge on time complexity.


All the metrics of evaluating a model.
Linear regression, logestic regression, random forest, decission tree, adaboost, Gradient boosting, XGb in detail.

Recall, precision roc_curve. Auc, f1 score, mse,mae, r2, adjusted r2 score.

Is it possible that r2 score appears in minus

Skills evaluated in this interview

EXL Service Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in EXL Service Data Scientist interview?
EXL Service interview process usually has 1-2 rounds. The most common rounds in the EXL Service interview process are Technical, One-on-one Round and Aptitude Test.
How to prepare for EXL Service Data Scientist 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 EXL Service. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at EXL Service expect are Python, Machine Learning, NLP, SQL and Data Science.
What are the top questions asked in EXL Service Data Scientist interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the EXL Service Data Scientist interview -

  1. How would you measure model effectiveness without using any of confusion matrix...read more
  2. What is Blue score in Regress...read more
  3. Difference between bagging and boost...read more

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