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Updated 31 May 2024

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 6 Apr 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2023.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

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

2

Technical Round (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 n...read more
  • Q3. SQL question Remove duplicate from a table tab1
3

Case Study Round

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

4

Project discussion Round (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

Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 31 May 2024

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in May 2024.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

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.

2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

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

Technical Round (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...read more

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

Data Scientist Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 29 Apr 2024

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Mar 2024.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

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

2

Coding Test Round

1 python coding questions and 2 Sql question

3

Case Study Round

2 case study question

4

HR Round (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.

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Data Scientist Interview Questions

Mu Sigma user image Lakshman Bhavana

posted on 9 Oct 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at Sastra University and was interviewed in Sep 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Along with coding round..there's a communication test at the end

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. There's ntg to ask about technical for me..
  • Q2. Behavioural questions
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Aug 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain the RAG pipeline?
  • Q2. Explain Confusion metrics

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Jun 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Basic aptitude , tech aptitude

2

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is overfitting
  • Q2. How to handle missing values

Data Scientist Interview Questions

Kantar user image Anonymous

posted on 31 May 2024

Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
-
Duration
-
Result
-

3 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

DSA and ML, AI, Coding question

2

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Case study which was easy
3

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. In depth questions on ML

Data Scientist Interview Questions

Straive user image Anonymous

posted on 24 Mar 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Duration
-
Result
-

3 Interview Rounds

1

Coding Test Round

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

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain abt projects and qns related to ML.
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic hr qns why straive?

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Mar 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Past projects of machine learning
  • Q2. Distributed computing and spark questions

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Was asked to explain one of my work projects in detail, Basic pandas syntax Add Answer

Nielsen Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Nielsen Data Scientist interview?
Nielsen interview process usually has 3-4 rounds. The most common rounds in the Nielsen interview process are Coding Test, Technical and Case Study.
How to prepare for Nielsen 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 Nielsen. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Nielsen expect are Django, Docker, Numpy, Pandas and Pyspark.
What are the top questions asked in Nielsen Data Scientist interview?

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

  1. Write pandas query to separate the names as first and last name from the full n...read more
  2. 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] Wri...read more
  3. SQL question Remove duplicate from a table t...read more

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