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FirstCry Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 2 Mar 2021

FirstCry Data Scientist Interview Experiences

1 interview found

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Sep 2020. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Explain VIF
  • Ans. 

    VIF stands for Variance Inflation Factor, a measure of multicollinearity in regression analysis.

    • VIF is used to detect the presence of multicollinearity in regression analysis.

    • It measures how much the variance of the estimated regression coefficient is increased due to multicollinearity.

    • A VIF value of 1 indicates no multicollinearity, while a value greater than 1 suggests increasing levels of multicollinearity.

    • A commonl...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on the projects that has been done in past

Interview questions from similar companies

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

Simple mediam DSA style questions around ML

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

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your projects?
  • Q2. How do you approach the project if you are using logistic regression model?
  • Ans. 

    Approach involves data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and interpretation.

    • Perform data preprocessing such as handling missing values, encoding categorical variables, and scaling features.

    • Split the data into training and testing sets.

    • Train the logistic regression model on the training data.

    • Evaluate the model using metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score.

    • Interpret the model coefficients to under...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What are you future goals?
  • Q2. What would you do if your interested field doesnt have any work in the company?
  • Ans. 

    I would seek opportunities to apply my skills in related fields within the company.

    • Explore other departments or teams within the company that may have projects related to my field of interest

    • Offer to collaborate with colleagues in different departments to bring a new perspective to their projects

    • Seek out professional development opportunities to expand my skills and knowledge in related areas

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Build a simple cat and dog image classifier

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. ML related questions
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behavioural questions, basically to check if you will be fit in a team
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Not Selected
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic Recommendation System Questions
  • Q2. A B Testing Questions
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Transformer models.
Round 2 - Case Study 

Related to Mathematical intuition in Deep learning.

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

Questions related to basic coding were asked, and some background on projects and discussions alongside maths and statistics concepts

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions related to projects done at my previous company
Round 3 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions related to my work at previous company
  • Q2. ML system design use case type of discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Make sure to be good at coding wrt DSA basics like array, strings, stacks and recursion.
Also practice some level of basic PyTorch stuff and specially Bert architecture (in terms of code)
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Easy topics arrays, sequence sum.

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via Job Portal

Round 1 - Coding Test 

SQL and Python data analysis questions

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How do you match the data in different columns.
  • Ans. 

    Matching data in different columns involves comparing the values in the columns and identifying similarities or patterns.

    • Use string matching techniques like exact match, partial match, or fuzzy matching.

    • Apply data cleaning and preprocessing techniques to standardize the data before matching.

    • Utilize advanced algorithms like Levenshtein distance or Jaccard similarity for more complex matching.

    • Consider using database join...

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

SQL query optimisation

Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Regular discussion, about job role, why swiggy

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare excel, and sql

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