Protium Finance Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Work with business team and on excel presentation.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Go in formals
2. Fluency in English is important (depends on interview panel)
3. Clarity on what your talking about

Round: Test
Experience: Basic coding questions which includes if ,for ,while loop questions
Section 2 contains good probability and puzzle problems
Tips: Should have a basic understanding of C/C++
Duration: 75 minutes

Round: Interview
Experience: The questions are of medium difficulty level which can be solved easily with calm and composed mind.
Tips: Solve as many puzzles and probability problems as it is highly likely that some of them may be repeated in your interview.

Skill Tips: Should have a descent knowledge and practise of puzzles and probability
Skills: Problem solving skills
College Name: IIT GUWAHATI

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Resume Shortlist
Tips: Not in your hands. Just try to make as good a resume as you can.

Round: Puzzle Interview
Experience: Very common puzzle questions. Had a good chat with the interviewer.
Tips: Make sure you make the interviewer aware of your thought process while solving a problem.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Again, common questions like why this company? What's the plan 2 years down the line?
Tips: Speak the truth. Never make up anything. Ask questions about your profile.

General Tips: Don't worry about it. Its a great learning experience. Let this learning be accompanied by joy.
Skills: Calmness, Aptitude, Attitude
College Name: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Motivation: Startup environment backed by one of country's biggest corporate house ensures lots of responsibilities and a steep learning curve along with great money.
Funny Moments: The whole puzzle interview was fun.

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: After Resume Shortlist we had an aptitute round.
Tips: Answer according to your own judgement. Dont try to be too precise.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I said they think I am a workaholic as I prefer to complete my work before chilling with them.

College Name: NIT Durgapur

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Interview at 11 pm. Stressed environment, close to stress interview.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
1.Online Test
2. GD
3. PI(HR)
GD TOPICS :
Topic 1 : How can education system benefit from interdisciplinary methods.
Topic 2 : Interconnected problems in the field of movie making.
INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE:
So you can speak German? Describe MS Dhoni in german. They opened Google Translate to counter check the words they wanted to be translated in both Deutsch and Spanish. Your profile speaks of an inclination towards software skills, why do you want to join an analytics company? Justify your action in two reasons as to why are you sitting here interviewing for the post of a data scientist rather than apply for a software engineer when this CV speaks highly of computer science? What is Finite Element Method? Explain. How relevant is your work in Computer Vision? Breakdown the tagline of Audi and translate accordingly. What is "Technik für Mobel" ? What are your current projects? Answer : Microsoft Xbox Kinect, Gesture Recognition. Counter question : But at Musimga you'd be doing far simpler stuff.? Counter suggestion : Why don't you go for MS?


Tips: Keep your cool during counter questions. Prepare your profile and CV well. Rest all is your hard work and groomed personal talents and acquired skills you learnt over the internet.

Skills: Ability To Cope Up With Stress, Spanish, German, Finite Element Modeling - FEM, Foreign Language
College Name: NIT Raipur
Funny Moments: Another HR enters in the midst of my interview and asks with bewildered amazement : What language is he speaking?
The other HR, "German".

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Interview was purely technical. Having technical knowledge in analytics and good command on matrix transformations probability and statistics helps.
Tips: Before interview look into basic concepts of analytics such as regression, classification, clustering, etc...

Skills: Probability And Statistics, Ability To Analyse
Duration: 2
College Name: IIT Madras
Motivation: As it is a start up based out of Boston I think I will be a good opportunity to network and also learn about how a company handles data.
Funny Moments: Hr was a North Indian and I am South Indian. There is slight problem for him in pronouncing few words. I had to ask him to repeat the question twice before I answered. It turns out to be a very simple question but we Both struggled