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Rakuten Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 30 Aug 2024

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Data Scientist Interview Questions & Answers

user image Dhananjay Anand

posted on 30 Aug 2024

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before Aug 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Normal Aptitude test quant

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Good company culture
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I was interviewed before Apr 2022.

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 - Coding Test 

Duration: 60mins, topics-DS Algo, Platform-hackerrank

Round 3 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain about your project(built a ecommerce website)? How did you handle concurrency related issues? Do you think priority queues can be used? how will you implement priority queues? which is the best dat...
  • Ans. 

    Concurrency issues in an ecommerce website project and the use of priority queues for handling them.

    • Concurrency issues arise when multiple users try to access and modify the same data simultaneously.

    • To handle concurrency, techniques like locking, synchronization, and transaction management can be used.

    • Priority queues can be used to manage concurrency by assigning priorities to different tasks or requests.

    • For example, i...

  • Answered by AI
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Situational questions open source work personal projects

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Rakuten Data Scientist interview:
  • Data Structures
  • Algorithms
  • Data Science
  • Machine Learning
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your basics well and do not lie on your resume and be thorough with all the things written in your resume

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Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Basic ML questions and projects
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Simple groupby questions in pandas?
  • Q2. Group by questions in SQL?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Lot of opportunity for learning within the company
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

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

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Transformer models.
Round 2 - Case Study 

Related to Mathematical intuition in Deep learning.

Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. General ML questions
  • Q2. General dl. Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Dont go to citiustech
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions around the previous work
  • Q2. Questions around how re-rank work, and image segmentation,
  • Q3. Questions with podman and docker

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare your profile and brush up your knowledge
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Project that I worked on
  • Ans. 

    Developed a predictive model for customer churn in a telecom company

    • Used machine learning algorithms like logistic regression and random forest

    • Analyzed customer data such as call duration, plan details, and customer complaints

    • Achieved 85% accuracy in predicting customer churn

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Use case only verbal communication
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain bagging vs boosting
  • Ans. 

    Bagging and boosting are ensemble learning techniques used to improve the performance of machine learning models.

    • Bagging (Bootstrap Aggregating) involves training multiple models independently on different subsets of the training data and then combining their predictions through averaging or voting.

    • Boosting involves training multiple models sequentially, where each subsequent model corrects the errors made by the previ...

  • Answered by AI
Round 2 - Case Study 

How to judge if the comment is actually describing a product

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Case Study 

Business Related case study, signed NDA

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Count number of Parameters in BERT
  • Q2. 3 sum array problem

Interview Preparation Tips

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How many rounds are there in Rakuten Data Scientist interview?
Rakuten interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Rakuten interview process are Resume Shortlist, Coding Test and Technical.
How to prepare for Rakuten 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 Rakuten. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Rakuten expect are Computer science, Machine Learning, Logistic Regression, Python and Data Analysis.

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