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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
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Sep 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Case Study 

Simple Data Science Case Study

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Python knowledge related questions
Round 3 - Case Study 

Data Science Case Study

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Jun 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Case Study 

Marketing case study

Round 2 - Case Study 

Ops case study for plant set up

Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary expectation
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

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

Round 2 - Technical 

(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 not present in a, and the final list should ...
  • Ans. 

    Remove duplicates from list b, keep elements not in list a, and sort in ascending order.

    • Create a set from list b to remove duplicates

    • Use list comprehension to keep elements not in list a

    • Sort the final list in ascending order

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. SQL question Remove duplicate from a table tab1
  • Ans. 

    Use the DISTINCT keyword in SQL to remove duplicates from a table.

    • Use the SELECT DISTINCT statement to retrieve unique rows from the table.

    • Identify the columns that should be used to determine uniqueness.

    • Example: SELECT DISTINCT column1, column2 FROM tab1;

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - Case Study 

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

Round 4 - Project discussion 

(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

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Test consisted 7 sections which lasted for more than a hour. There were questions related to coding , sql , analytical questions etc.

Round 2 - Coding Test 

1 python coding questions and 2 Sql question

Round 3 - Case Study 

2 case study question

Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This was the final round . Technical+HR .

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - All the best. Interview process is too long , have patience. And be prepared , questions will be basic.
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Dec 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain any ML model.
  • Ans. 

    Random Forest is an ensemble learning method that builds multiple decision trees and merges them together to get a more accurate and stable prediction.

    • Random Forest is a popular machine learning model used for classification and regression tasks.

    • It works by creating multiple decision trees during training and outputs the mode of the classes for classification or the average prediction for regression.

    • Random Forest is ro...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Create Dataframe from two lists.
  • Ans. 

    Creating a DataFrame from two lists in Python.

    • Import the pandas library

    • Create two lists of data

    • Use pd.DataFrame() to create a DataFrame from the two lists

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Nielsen Data Scientist interview:
  • Python
  • pandas
  • ML
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Machine Learning, Metrics

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

I was asked to write SQL queries for 3rd highest salary of the employee, some name filtering, group by tasks.
Python code to find the index of the maximum number without using numpy.

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain the Project undertaken during the research and follow-up questions
Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Write pandas query to separate the names as first and last name from the full name. Drop the duplicate columns and also the missing values. Write output for the Python code. Write SQL query to retrieve t...
  • Ans. 

    Answering questions related to data science concepts and techniques.

    • Recall is the ratio of correctly predicted positive observations to the total actual positives. Precision is the ratio of correctly predicted positive observations to the total predicted positives.

    • To reduce variance in an ensemble model, techniques like bagging, boosting, and stacking can be used. Bagging involves training multiple models on different ...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Nielsen Data Scientist interview:
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • SQL
  • Machine Learning
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Have your basics strong.

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Oct 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Combination logic on python

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain classification
  • Ans. 

    Classification is a machine learning technique used to categorize data into different classes or categories based on past observations.

    • Classification involves training a model on labeled data to predict the class of new, unseen data points.

    • Common algorithms for classification include logistic regression, decision trees, support vector machines, and k-nearest neighbors.

    • Examples of classification tasks include spam email...

  • Answered by AI

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