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Verisk Financial Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers

Updated 26 Sep 2021

Verisk Financial Data Scientist Interview Experiences

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I applied via Recruitment Consultant and was interviewed in Mar 2021. There were 4 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. Details on the past projects
  • Q2. Why did I do certain procedures whatever I have done like missing value imputation techniques and diving deeper with that.
  • Q3. SQL questions
  • Q4. 5 Aptitude questions in the 1st round. What are various sampling techniques. Various performance metrics of classification and regression problems.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Total 4 rounds of technical interviews. Even the last managerial round is also technical. 1st round by a Senior DS, 2nd by a DS lead and 3rd by a senior lead.

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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Why data analysis and data science
  • Ans. 

    Data analysis and data science are crucial for extracting valuable insights from large datasets to drive informed decision-making.

    • Data analysis and data science help in uncovering patterns and trends within data.

    • They enable businesses to make data-driven decisions for improved efficiency and effectiveness.

    • These fields also play a vital role in predictive analytics and forecasting.

    • Examples include using machine learning...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Why pgdm in business analytics
  • Ans. 

    PGDM in Business Analytics provides specialized knowledge and skills for analyzing data to drive business decisions.

    • Specialized curriculum focusing on data analysis techniques and tools

    • Hands-on experience with real-world data sets

    • Opportunities for networking with industry professionals

    • Career advancement in the field of business analytics

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain Pyspark code execution flow Explaing Project architecture Explaing Narrow vs Wide transformation Query to find second highest salary
  • Ans. 

    Pyspark code execution flow involves transformations and actions, project architecture includes components like data sources and processing, narrow transformations operate on a single partition while wide transformations shuffle data, query for second highest salary involves using window functions.

    • Pyspark code execution flow involves defining transformations and actions on RDDs or DataFrames.

    • Project architecture typica...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-

I applied via LinkedIn and was interviewed in Feb 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Focus on little bit of dynamic programming

Round 2 - Technical 

(5 Questions)

  • Q1. Apache spark architecture and ecosystem along with memory management
  • Q2. SQL queries for manager salary
  • Q3. Python decorators --> @
  • Q4. RANK and other window functions
  • Q5. Joins along with use case
  • Ans. 

    Joins are used in SQL to combine rows from two or more tables based on a related column between them.

    • Joins are used to retrieve data from multiple tables based on a related column

    • Common types of joins include INNER JOIN, LEFT JOIN, RIGHT JOIN, and FULL JOIN

    • Use cases for joins include combining customer data with order data, merging employee information with department details

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Feb 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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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 

Sql queries and python programs

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. This round is about work experiences and some scenario based questions.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Keep your resume short and crisp.

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2019. There were 3 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

4 Questions

  • Q1. 1. How to choose optimum probability threshold from ROC?
  • Ans. 

    To choose optimum probability threshold from ROC, we need to balance between sensitivity and specificity.

    • Choose the threshold that maximizes the sum of sensitivity and specificity

    • Use Youden's J statistic to find the optimal threshold

    • Consider the cost of false positives and false negatives

    • Use cross-validation to evaluate the performance of different thresholds

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. 2. How to test time series trend break up?
  • Ans. 

    To test time series trend break up, statistical tests like Augmented Dickey-Fuller test can be used.

    • Augmented Dickey-Fuller test can be used to check if a time series is stationary or not.

    • If the time series is not stationary, we can use differencing to make it stationary.

    • After differencing, we can again perform the Augmented Dickey-Fuller test to check for stationarity.

    • If there is a significant change in the mean or va...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. 3. How do you deal with senior customer when you don't have enough data?
  • Ans. 

    Communicate transparently and offer alternative solutions.

    • Explain the limitations of the available data and the potential risks of making decisions based on incomplete information.

    • Offer alternative solutions that can be implemented with the available data.

    • Collaborate with the customer to identify additional data sources or explore other options to gather more data.

    • Provide regular updates on the progress of data collect...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. 4. Do you prefer working in clear defined goal space or where customer isn't sure what he wants?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be business specific.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2021. There were 5 interview rounds.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Sql and python basics

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Very Good

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Apr 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Difference between probability density function and mass function
  • Ans. 

    Probability density function is for continuous random variables while mass function is for discrete random variables.

    • Probability density function gives the probability of a continuous random variable taking a certain value within a range.

    • Mass function gives the probability of a discrete random variable taking a certain value.

    • Probability density function integrates to 1 over the entire range of the random variable.

    • Mass ...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Company does not have any practical experience on interviewing data scientists, data science is much more than mere theories. Good theoretical knowledge will find you a job here

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed before Aug 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Difference between CNN and MLP
  • Ans. 

    CNN is used for image recognition while MLP is used for general classification tasks.

    • CNN uses convolutional layers to extract features from images while MLP uses fully connected layers.

    • CNN is better suited for tasks that require spatial understanding like object detection while MLP is better for tabular data.

    • CNN has fewer parameters than MLP due to weight sharing in convolutional layers.

    • CNN can handle input of varying

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Brush up basic statistics . Also prepare atleast 2 , 3 ML algorithms for the interview.

Skills evaluated in this interview

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed before Mar 2021. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. About Resume and basic ML

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Don't join this company as it has no real ML projects but POC on dummy data

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