National Payments Corporation of India Associate Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Tell me about your projects?
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Q2. How do you approach the project if you are using logistic regression model?
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Approach involves data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and interpretation.
• Perform data preprocessing such as handling missing values, encoding categorical variables, and scaling features.

• Split the data into training and testing sets.

• Train the logistic regression model on the training data.

• Evaluate the model using metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score.

• Interpret the model coefficients to under...read more
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Q1. What are you future goals?
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Q2. What would you do if your interested field doesnt have any work in the company?
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I would seek opportunities to apply my skills in related fields within the company.
• Explore other departments or teams within the company that may have projects related to my field of interest

• Offer to collaborate with colleagues in different departments to bring a new perspective to their projects

• Seek out professional development opportunities to expand my skills and knowledge in related areas
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Q1. What is oob in random forest
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Multiple choice questions

SQL , python, scala, Java

Python round tested basic Python only (not Pandas)

The case study round was with their client team

Q1. Are you willing to work from the client office?
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Q1. What is Bert and transformer
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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...read more
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Q2. NLP pre processing techniques
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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
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Q1. Basic questions
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Test+2 interviews(technical and statistics)

Basic guestimates and case studies

We were trained for 2 weeks on web dev. and data science and were given individual 2 projects, according to the performance on them and a final interview, candidates were selected.

Q1. All about the assignment done
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Q2. Your interest and particular domain you want to work in
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