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Updated 17 Feb 2021

Nielsen Executive Data Scientist Interview Experiences

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I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jan 2021. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

3 Questions

  • Q1. 1st round was an online test, which was pretty forward, thereafter I went onto a technical interview with Director & Lead Data Scientist where they asked very few basic questions.
  • Q2. The interview was really basic and any fresher can achieve iff they want you to get in!
  • Q3. Questions were asked on the topics like SQL, Python programming questions, a couple of coding questions, and some HR-related questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It was a good experience for me but feedback is expected because the questions asked from them were easy and I don't know how did they judge me based on that.

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

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Sep 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Basic mathematical and resoning questions.

Round 2 - Personal Interview 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your self
  • Q2. Explain the recent project
  • Ans. 

    Developed a predictive model for customer churn in a telecom company

    • Collected and cleaned customer data including usage patterns and demographics

    • Used machine learning algorithms such as logistic regression and random forest

    • Evaluated model performance using metrics like accuracy and AUC-ROC curve

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. What is the difference between random forest and decision tree
  • Ans. 

    Random forest is an ensemble learning method that uses multiple decision trees to make predictions, while a decision tree is a single tree-like structure that makes decisions based on features.

    • Random forest is a collection of decision trees that work together to make predictions.

    • Decision tree is a single tree-like structure that makes decisions based on features.

    • Random forest reduces overfitting by averaging the predic...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What is cost function
  • Ans. 

    A cost function is a mathematical formula used to measure the cost of a particular decision or set of decisions.

    • Cost function helps in evaluating the performance of a model by measuring how well it is able to predict the outcomes.

    • It is used in optimization problems to find the best solution that minimizes the cost.

    • Examples include mean squared error in linear regression and cross-entropy loss in logistic regression.

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - All the above questions is based upon the project what i have explained

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

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

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain the RAG pipeline?
  • Ans. 

    RAG pipeline is a data processing pipeline used in data science to categorize data into Red, Amber, and Green based on certain criteria.

    • RAG stands for Red, Amber, Green which are used to categorize data based on certain criteria

    • Red category typically represents data that needs immediate attention or action

    • Amber category represents data that requires monitoring or further investigation

    • Green category represents data that...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Explain Confusion metrics
  • Ans. 

    Confusion metrics are used to evaluate the performance of a classification model by comparing predicted values with actual values.

    • Confusion matrix is a table that describes the performance of a classification model.

    • It consists of four different metrics: True Positive, True Negative, False Positive, and False Negative.

    • These metrics are used to calculate other evaluation metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 s...

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Gen AI projects
  • Q2. Architecture of projects I worked
Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

DSA and ML, AI, Coding question

Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Case study which was easy
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. In depth questions on ML
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Difficult To solve in 30 minutes

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Python libraries pandas sql

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be Confident
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

SQL, Python coding …

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

Given 6 coding qns related to java and html and also ML.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain abt projects and qns related to ML.
  • Ans. 

    Projects in machine learning involve developing algorithms to analyze and interpret data for various applications.

    • Developing a recommendation system for an e-commerce website

    • Predicting customer churn for a telecommunications company

    • Classifying images in a computer vision project

    • Anomaly detection in network traffic for cybersecurity

    • Natural language processing for sentiment analysis

  • Answered by AI
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic hr qns why straive?

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Mar 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Past projects of machine learning
  • Ans. 

    Developed a predictive model for customer churn using machine learning algorithms.

    • Used Python and scikit-learn library for data preprocessing and model building

    • Performed feature engineering to improve model performance

    • Evaluated model performance using metrics like accuracy, precision, and recall

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Distributed computing and spark questions

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Technology,(NIT), Agartala and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

There was aptitude qusns and video synthesis qusn

Round 2 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. They showed a video and asked to write about my understanding
  • Q2. Case study related qusns
  • Q3. She asked me about javascript
  • Q4. Verified my speaking capabilities
  • Q5. Firstly asked about my intro

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident, study your resume and learn about case studies online

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