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Sigmoid Senior Data Scientist Lead Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 11 Jul 2024

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jun 2024.

5 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. How does dropout help in neural networks?
  • Q2. How does xgboost deal with nan values?
  • Q3. What would you do if you see your model not performing well on a time series prediction specifically on peaks and troughs?
  • Q4. How would you deal with datasets having lots of categories
2

Case Study Round

Case study involved creating a churn model with an imbalanced dataset. It contained a lot of missing values in numerical features which were correlated, Also the scaling was highly skewed. Categorical data contained a lot of low frequency categories. They wanted a final model performance on a test dataset on chosen KPIs (I chose F1-score).

3

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Questions on the case study - assumptions made, why did you choose a particular KPI? What was the loss function? How did you deal with class imbalance, nan valu...read more
  • Q2. Questions related to past experience - I told him about my last project which was based on computer vision. Interviewer asked a lot of clarifying questions and ...read more
4

Behavioral interview Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Asked about previous projects and the business impact.
  • Q2. What challenges have you faced managing a team?
  • Q3. Asked about a hypothetical scenario, how would you help the customer with that
  • Q4. What would you do if someone in your team is not performing well
5

HR Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Salary Discussion
  • Q2. Previous employment history

Skills evaluated in this interview

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Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2024.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (5 Questions)

  • Q1. How will you find loyal customers for a store like DMart , SmartBazar
  • Q2. Who is more valuable a customer who is making small transactions everyday or the customer who makes big transactions in a month
  • Q3. What will you do as a data scientist if the sales of a store is declining
  • Q4. We have to bundle the items together in the units of 2-3 as a single units like chips of 3 packets together. how to identify which items to bundle and number of...read more
  • Q5. You are working in a project, where your approach towards problem is more innovative while the rest of the team is following conventional approach. how will you...read more
2

Case Study Round

1. A store has promotional offers how will you analyse that offers are working in their favour.
2. What data will you require if you want to predict the sales of the chocolate in a store.
3. Why data is distributed normally in linear regression.
4. Difference between linear and logistic regression
5. A person who is senior to you and you are working on the same project. But that person has very bad reputation of misbehaving and being rude to people. And he is doing same with you. What will you do?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare case study a lot. Both round were mainly revolving around case study and situational HR questions. Coding questions were not asked a lot. only few that too were quite easy.

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

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

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

Basic mathematical and resoning questions.

2

Personal Interview Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your self
  • Q2. Explain the recent project
  • Q3. What is the difference between random forest and decision tree
  • Q4. What is cost function

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

Data Scientist Interview Questions

Nielsen 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

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

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

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Apr 2024.

1 Interview Round

1

Coding Test Round

SQL, Python coding …

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

I applied via Referral and was interviewed before May 2023.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Sql, Python programming Questions
2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Retail, CPG based case study questions like offer allocation method for loyal customers
Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Easy
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.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

There was aptitude qusns and video synthesis qusn

2

Technical Round (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
Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Dec 2023.

4 Interview Rounds

1

Aptitude Test Round

It was MCQ in simple aptitude, python and SQL questions

2

Technical Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Python coding and explaination
  • Q2. SQL coding and explaination
3

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Case study based on data understanding
4

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Behavioural and questions from my resume

Sigmoid Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Sigmoid Senior Data Scientist Lead interview?
Sigmoid interview process usually has 5 rounds. The most common rounds in the Sigmoid interview process are Technical, Case Study and HR.
What are the top questions asked in Sigmoid Senior Data Scientist Lead interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Sigmoid Senior Data Scientist Lead interview -

  1. How would you deal with datasets having lots of categor...read more
  2. How does dropout help in neural networ...read more
  3. How does xgboost deal with nan valu...read more

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