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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.
View all tips
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 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
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

1.Describe your project.
2.Explain machine learning concept.

Round 2 - Case Study 

Presentation based question on case study

Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Tell something which you haven't put in your resume
  • Ans. 

    I have experience in organizing and leading community service projects

    • Organized a charity event to raise funds for a local animal shelter

    • Led a team of volunteers in cleaning up a park in the neighborhood

    • Coordinated a food drive for a homeless shelter

  • Answered by AI
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Aptitude, coding on python NLP

Round 2 - Group Discussion 

Python Data Frames, String list manipulation

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Common discussion
  • Q2. Salary location etc
Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed before Nov 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Write a code for Factorial series

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Deep learning related
  • Q2. Maximum GenAI Based question
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

Hacker rank python and SQL coding test

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Project experience related questions
Round 3 - Case Study 

Was given a case study to solve for

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via Campus Placement

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Test+2 interviews(technical and statistics)

Round 2 - Case Study 

Basic guestimates and case studies

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Study hard
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions on MLP, ML
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Sep 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

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.
View all tips
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Data science related areas
Round 3 - Assignment 

Case study related to semantic search

Round 4 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Questions based on case study

Rakuten Interview FAQs

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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