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IBM Consulting Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 27 Oct 2022

IBM Consulting Data Scientist Interview Experiences

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I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Oct 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Covered the width and some depth of ML topics too. Questions from projects
  • Q2. Use case discussion, project discussion, ML questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your projects very well. Only mention things you are confident about.

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Interview Preparation Tips

Round: technical interview
Experience: There were 3 rounds, All related to statistics and machine learning and whatever stuffs I had mentioned in my resume. HR round was not there. The partner of the firm just briefed me a bit about the company and asked me to relax without asking any questions in the third round.

Tips: Interview will be fun if you are thorough about your resume and it will be a cakewalk to you.

General Tips: Do's :
1. Prepare for Aptitude very seriously. Puzzles are important but aptitude is must.
2. Be thorough about everything you had specified in your resume
3. Be honest while creating your resume (It helps a lot)

Don'ts :
1. Don't get broken if you are not getting selected in Day 1 or 2 or so.
2. Don't over-prepare for case interviews, they are fairly simple.



Final Tips :
Be confident about yourself. Your attitude in the interview matters a lot. And don't lie even a bit in your resume. Many got selected with a poor resume than those with huge exaggerations.

College Name: IIT Kanpur

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Sep 2020. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Nothing much technical

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Go in formals
2. Fluency in English is important (depends on interview panel)
3. Clarity on what your talking about

I applied via Walk-in and was interviewed in Apr 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. How I feel the company has opportunity for growth

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - I reply that the company is good but for growth from any investor side I would not. Recommend it it is very big so less chances for growth and this company is good for investment by any retired man cause it's safe with medium roe but roe more than fds
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
No response

I applied via LinkedIn

Round 1 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Why do you want to for PWC?
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

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

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Write a prompt to extract key Personal Identifiable Information given a resume
  • Ans. 

    Extracting key Personal Identifiable Information from a resume prompt

    • Look for information such as full name, address, phone number, email address, date of birth, and social security number

    • Utilize natural language processing techniques to identify patterns and structures in the text

    • Consider using regular expressions to match specific formats of personal information

    • Ensure data privacy and security measures are in place w

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Have a good hold over basic ML and DL concepts, and then go for more complex topics like LLMs

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jun 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Question were asked pertaining to Mathematics behind ML algorithm
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Scenario based NLP Machine Learning Question
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Joining and salary Negotiations

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Focus on have deep knowledge of any ML algorithm you know.

You need not know all of them. But whatever you know you need to know at depth.

Data Scientist Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 8 Jun 2022

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in May 2022. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How do you handle outliers? How to handle imbalance dataset? Feature engineering techniques?
  • Ans. 

    Outliers can be handled by removing, transforming or imputing them. Imbalanced datasets can be handled by resampling techniques. Feature engineering involves creating new features from existing ones.

    • Outliers can be removed using statistical methods like z-score or IQR.

    • Outliers can be transformed using techniques like log transformation or box-cox transformation.

    • Outliers can be imputed using techniques like mean imputat...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. 1. Explain the project in detail 2. Explain me your 5 favourite models 3. Questions on probability
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It was a HR round and HR has asked me what's your salary expectations.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. The first round was technical. They asked me more about machine learning algorithms and the project I have worked on.
2. Second round was managerial round. Manager has asked me probability questions, questions related to random forest and some statistical concepts.
3. Third round was the HR round.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

It was good , basic projects and coding was asked

Round 1 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. 2 round technical interview, both of them about ML and last one concerning statistics and ML.
  • Q2. What is linear regression?
  • Ans. 

    Linear regression is a statistical method to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables.

    • It assumes a linear relationship between the variables

    • It is used to predict the value of the dependent variable based on the independent variable(s)

    • It can be simple linear regression (one independent variable) or multiple linear regression (more than one independent variable)

    • It is commo...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Question regarding confusion matrix?
  • Q4. Name various ML algorithm?
  • Ans. 

    ML algorithms are used to train models on data to make predictions or decisions. Some popular ones are SVM, KNN, and Random Forest.

    • Support Vector Machines (SVM)

    • K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)

    • Random Forest

    • Naive Bayes

    • Decision Trees

    • Linear Regression

    • Logistic Regression

    • Neural Networks

    • Gradient Boosting

    • Clustering Algorithms (K-Means, Hierarchical)

    • Association Rule Learning (Apriori)

    • Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms (PCA, LDA)

    • Reinf

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Know machine learning and statistics.
Know basics is enough, not need sequenced models

Skills evaluated in this interview

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IBM Consulting interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the IBM Consulting interview process are Resume Shortlist and One-on-one Round.
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