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Updated 23 Aug 2024

Morningstar Data Scientist Interview Experiences

1 interview found

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

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed before Aug 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is Bert and transformer
  • Ans. 

    Bert and transformer are models used in natural language processing for tasks like text classification and language generation.

    • Bert (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) is a transformer-based model developed by Google for NLP tasks.

    • Transformer is a deep learning model architecture that uses self-attention mechanisms to process sequential data like text.

    • Both Bert and transformer have been widely use...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. NLP pre processing techniques
  • Ans. 

    NLP pre processing techniques involve cleaning and preparing text data for analysis.

    • Tokenization: breaking text into words or sentences

    • Stopword removal: removing common words that do not add meaning

    • Lemmatization: reducing words to their base form

    • Normalization: converting text to lowercase

    • Removing special characters and punctuation

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Basic questions
  • Q2. Strength weakness

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Mar 2023. 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.
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Round 2 - Assignment 

Develop an ML solution from the given problem statement and data.

Round 3 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Discussion on your assignment and previous work.
  • Q2. Why did you choose the model?
  • Q3. Explain how GBM works
  • Ans. 

    GBM is a machine learning algorithm that builds multiple decision trees to predict outcomes and combines them to improve accuracy.

    • GBM stands for Gradient Boosting Machine

    • It builds multiple decision trees sequentially, each one correcting errors made by the previous tree

    • The final prediction is a combination of predictions from all the trees

    • GBM is an ensemble learning technique that is popular for its high accuracy and f

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Writing professional code can improve your chances. You should choose the python best practices and use efficient algorithm. Rather than creating notebooks, try creating a module resembling a DS pipeline for your solution. Add tests for the functions included, cover majority of data issue checks like overcoating, data leakage etc.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Aug 2022. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General resume based question. Interviewer asked me to explain one of the past project and asked some questions based on that
Round 3 - Assignment 

It was the assignment including the data science problem and SQL questions for one of the datetime table. Assignment was for 3 hours and had to complete some mandatory questions from data science assignment.

Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It was a technical + data science case study round. Interviewer asked me some technical questions based on machine learning and gave me one case study.
Round 5 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interviewer asked me some general behavioural questions and also gave me one case study to solve.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - In experienced candidate interviewer try to check the thought process and analytical thinking of the candidate. So make sure you prepare well for the case studies along with the technical knowledge.
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How to check model performance? Over fit vs underfit?
  • Ans. 

    Model performance can be checked using various metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrix.

    • Split data into training and testing sets

    • Train the model on the training set

    • Evaluate the model on the testing set using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrix

    • If the model performs well on the testing set, it is not overfit or underfit

    • If the model performs well o...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Python code for 45 mins. Pandas , group by , filtering questions

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mostly behavioral questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare pandas interview questions well

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

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

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
View all tips
Round 2 - Assignment 

Develop an ML solution from the given problem statement and data.

Round 3 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Discussion on your assignment and previous work.
  • Q2. Why did you choose the model?
  • Q3. Explain how GBM works
  • Ans. 

    GBM is a machine learning algorithm that builds multiple decision trees to predict outcomes and combines them to improve accuracy.

    • GBM stands for Gradient Boosting Machine

    • It builds multiple decision trees sequentially, each one correcting errors made by the previous tree

    • The final prediction is a combination of predictions from all the trees

    • GBM is an ensemble learning technique that is popular for its high accuracy and f

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Writing professional code can improve your chances. You should choose the python best practices and use efficient algorithm. Rather than creating notebooks, try creating a module resembling a DS pipeline for your solution. Add tests for the functions included, cover majority of data issue checks like overcoating, data leakage etc.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Aug 2022. There were 5 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Double-check your resume for any spelling mistakes. The recruiter may consider spelling mistakes as careless behavior or poor communication skills.
View all tips
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General resume based question. Interviewer asked me to explain one of the past project and asked some questions based on that
Round 3 - Assignment 

It was the assignment including the data science problem and SQL questions for one of the datetime table. Assignment was for 3 hours and had to complete some mandatory questions from data science assignment.

Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. It was a technical + data science case study round. Interviewer asked me some technical questions based on machine learning and gave me one case study.
Round 5 - Behavioral 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Interviewer asked me some general behavioural questions and also gave me one case study to solve.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - In experienced candidate interviewer try to check the thought process and analytical thinking of the candidate. So make sure you prepare well for the case studies along with the technical knowledge.
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. How to check model performance? Over fit vs underfit?
  • Ans. 

    Model performance can be checked using various metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrix.

    • Split data into training and testing sets

    • Train the model on the training set

    • Evaluate the model on the testing set using metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and confusion matrix

    • If the model performs well on the testing set, it is not overfit or underfit

    • If the model performs well o...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Coding Test 

Python code for 45 mins. Pandas , group by , filtering questions

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Mostly behavioral questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare pandas interview questions well

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Apr 2022. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Do not use an unprofessional email address such as cool_boy@email.com. It shows a lack of professionalism by the candidate.
View all tips
Round 2 - Coding Test 

It had done sql tests

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Case study regarding a business use case
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Technical interview with sql & ML

Morningstar Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Morningstar Data Scientist interview?
Morningstar interview process usually has 2 rounds. The most common rounds in the Morningstar interview process are Technical and HR.
How to prepare for Morningstar Data Scientist interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Morningstar. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Morningstar expect are Machine Learning, Python, Data Science, Data Structures and Artificial Intelligence.
What are the top questions asked in Morningstar Data Scientist interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Morningstar Data Scientist interview -

  1. What is Bert and transfor...read more
  2. NLP pre processing techniq...read more
  3. Basic questi...read more

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