Merilytics Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

2 rounds of 15 min each
1st was probability and statistics
2nd was data science

A problem statement was given to build a predictive model to help a CFO of an IT company to predict the time taken by an issue to resolve and classify the issue to high and low priority. Give some insights on the dataset to reduce the time to resolve the issue

Q1. What is onehotencoding?
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Q2. What do you mean by cross validation?
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Q3. Explain Random Forest Classifier.
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Q4. What are API and restful API?
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Estimate the market size for a babysitter company across India? How will you proceed to expand the company across India?

Paragraph based questions. Answer questions based on data from bar chart and pie chart

Q1. Business case studies
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Profit and loss case study. Where I had to figure out why the company was not making profits.

Math, statistics and number crunching

Test consisting of two sections-
DI
LR (Case study type)

This will be an interview round in which you will have to solve a case study (EIther market entry or profit/loss case)

This will be again an interview round in which you will be asked a case to solve(either market entry or profit/loss case)

Could be a little difficult to crack. It is advised to not cheat as they have smart screening process and your chance to get an interview goes for a toss

Simple case study. It could be a little difficult to understand what the interviewer wants from the problem statement. Ask questions to clarify what they are really expecting out of you.

Simple case study. Analytical skills were tested. They don't care if you have certain skills. They want to see your problem solving approach. Again interview could be a little confusing but ask questions.

Easy around 25 qsns. Needs basic math and reasoning

Q1. Technical questions regarding sql mostly and puzzles
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