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Updated 10 Mar 2024

HSBC Bank Data Scientist Interview Experiences

2 interviews found

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

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General profile discussion

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your profile
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Difficult yet went well

Round 2 - Group Discussion 

Went well. Prepare GD well as it's a major screening

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Attended in 2018. Forgot the questions but asked many case studies
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. The general HR ques your intro, short term long term goals, regarding relocation etc

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well. Be calm and understand ques and then answer

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I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Sep 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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 Resume tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Projects and Data Science concepts
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Python and coding skills

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be through with concepts - ML, stats, NLP
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before May 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Self Intro and projects discussion
  • Q2. Feature selection methods
  • Ans. 

    Feature selection methods help in selecting the most relevant features for building predictive models.

    • Feature selection methods aim to reduce the number of input variables to only those that are most relevant.

    • Common methods include filter methods, wrapper methods, and embedded methods.

    • Examples include Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE), Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and Lasso regression.

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Central Limit Theorem
  • Ans. 

    Central Limit Theorem states that the sampling distribution of the sample mean approaches a normal distribution as the sample size increases.

    • The Central Limit Theorem is essential in statistics as it allows us to make inferences about a population based on a sample.

    • It states that regardless of the shape of the population distribution, the sampling distribution of the sample mean will be approximately normally distribut...

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Nov 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Types of Chunking in data preparation in RAG
  • Q2. How Embedding works in Vector Databases
  • Q3. Explain ARIMA model
  • Q4. How can we decide to choose Linear Regression for a business problem
Round 2 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. What is token and it's limit for Open Source LLMs
  • Q2. Difference of a Regression and Time Series problem
  • Q3. Advantage of LSTM over RNN
  • Q4. Performance Metrics for Logistic Regression
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Asked about ml algos

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Aug 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Difference between CNN and MLP
  • Ans. 

    CNN is used for image recognition while MLP is used for general classification tasks.

    • CNN uses convolutional layers to extract features from images while MLP uses fully connected layers.

    • CNN is better suited for tasks that require spatial understanding like object detection while MLP is better for tabular data.

    • CNN has fewer parameters than MLP due to weight sharing in convolutional layers.

    • CNN can handle input of varying

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Brush up basic statistics . Also prepare atleast 2 , 3 ML algorithms for the interview.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain about how recommendation engine work
  • Ans. 

    Recommendation engines analyze user data to suggest items based on preferences and behavior.

    • Recommendation engines use collaborative filtering to suggest items based on user behavior and preferences.

    • They can also use content-based filtering to recommend items similar to ones the user has liked in the past.

    • Some recommendation engines combine both collaborative and content-based filtering for more accurate suggestions.

    • Ex...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Dec 2021. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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 Resume tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Metrics and related questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Quite easy if you know ml basics
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HSBC Bank interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the HSBC Bank interview process are Aptitude Test, Group Discussion and Technical.

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