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Zangoh Data Scientist Interview Questions and Answers for Experienced

Updated 18 Dec 2023

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Data Scientist Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 18 Dec 2023

Interview experience
2
Poor
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Nov 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
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Round 2 - Aptitude Test 

Easy, questions seems familiar to that of I practice

Round 3 - Coding Test 

No testing of output was available either you code gives correct output or alot of error. And MCQ of coding round was mediocre . And at the last it was suppose to be HR round if selected, best regards.

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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Job Portal and was interviewed in Apr 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(9 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain XGBoost algoritm
  • Ans. 

    XGBoost is a powerful machine learning algorithm known for its speed and performance in handling large datasets.

    • XGBoost stands for eXtreme Gradient Boosting, which is an implementation of gradient boosting machines.

    • It is widely used in machine learning competitions and is known for its speed and performance.

    • XGBoost uses a technique called boosting, where multiple weak learners are combined to create a strong learner.

    • It...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. XgBoost algorithm has 10-20 features. How are the splits decided, on which feature are they going to be divided?
  • Ans. 

    XgBoost algorithm uses a greedy approach to determine splits based on feature importance.

    • XgBoost algorithm calculates the information gain for each feature to determine the best split.

    • The feature with the highest information gain is chosen for the split.

    • This process is repeated recursively for each node in the tree.

    • Features can be split based on numerical values or categories.

    • Example: If a feature like 'age' has the hi...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Do you have any experience on cloud platform?
  • Ans. 

    Yes, I have experience working on cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud.

    • Experience with AWS services like S3, EC2, and Redshift

    • Familiarity with Google Cloud services like BigQuery and Compute Engine

    • Utilized cloud platforms for data storage, processing, and analysis

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. What is entropy, information gain?
  • Ans. 

    Entropy is a measure of randomness or uncertainty in a dataset, while information gain is the reduction in entropy after splitting a dataset based on a feature.

    • Entropy is used in decision tree algorithms to determine the best feature to split on.

    • Information gain measures the effectiveness of a feature in classifying the data.

    • Higher information gain indicates that a feature is more useful for splitting the data.

    • Entropy ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q5. What is hypothesis testing?
  • Ans. 

    Hypothesis testing is a statistical method used to make inferences about a population based on sample data.

    • Hypothesis testing involves formulating a null hypothesis and an alternative hypothesis.

    • The null hypothesis is assumed to be true until there is enough evidence to reject it.

    • Statistical tests are used to determine the likelihood of observing the data if the null hypothesis is true.

    • The p-value is used to determine ...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q6. Explain precision and recall, when are they used in which scenario?
  • Ans. 

    Precision and recall are metrics used in evaluating the performance of classification models.

    • Precision measures the accuracy of positive predictions, while recall measures the ability of the model to find all positive instances.

    • Precision = TP / (TP + FP)

    • Recall = TP / (TP + FN)

    • Precision is important when false positives are costly, while recall is important when false negatives are costly.

    • For example, in a spam email de...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q7. What is data imbalance?
  • Ans. 

    Data imbalance refers to unequal distribution of classes in a dataset, where one class has significantly more samples than others.

    • Data imbalance can lead to biased models that favor the majority class.

    • It can result in poor performance for minority classes, as the model may struggle to accurately predict them.

    • Techniques like oversampling, undersampling, and using different evaluation metrics can help address data imbala...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q8. What is SMOTE? Do you have any experience working on Time Series? Code analysis of global variable?
  • Ans. 

    SMOTE stands for Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique, used to balance imbalanced datasets by generating synthetic samples.

    • SMOTE is commonly used in machine learning to address class imbalance by creating synthetic samples of the minority class.

    • It works by generating new instances of the minority class by interpolating between existing instances.

    • SMOTE is particularly useful in scenarios where the minority class i...

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  • Q9. Find 5th highest salary in every department. What are window functions Difference between union and union all Difference between delete and truncate.

Interview Preparation Tips

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Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in May 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

DSA was asked. And general coding language questions were asked. Previous experience based questions were asked.

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Machine Learning, Generative AI, Deep learning interview questions. 2 Coding problems based on Algorithms.

Round 3 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. One systems design question was there.
  • Q2. Situations based problems was there.
  • Q3. Questions on Past experiences.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
-
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Cosine similarity
  • Ans. 

    Cosine similarity measures the similarity between two non-zero vectors in an inner product space.

    • Cosine similarity ranges from -1 to 1, with 1 indicating identical vectors and -1 indicating opposite vectors.

    • It is commonly used in information retrieval, text mining, and recommendation systems.

    • Formula: cos(theta) = (A . B) / (||A|| * ||B||)

    • Example: Calculating similarity between two documents based on their word frequenc

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is difference between recall and precission
  • Ans. 

    Recall is the ratio of correctly predicted positive observations to the all observations in actual class, while precision is the ratio of correctly predicted positive observations to the total predicted positive observations.

    • Recall is about the actual positive instances that were correctly identified by the model.

    • Precision is about the predicted positive instances and how many of them were actually positive.

    • Recall = Tr...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. How to remove stop words and how it works
  • Ans. 

    Stop words are common words like 'the', 'is', 'and' that are removed from text data to improve analysis.

    • Stop words are commonly removed from text data to improve the accuracy of natural language processing tasks.

    • They are typically removed before tokenization and can be done using libraries like NLTK or spaCy.

    • Examples of stop words include 'the', 'is', 'and', 'in', 'on', etc.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Whats the goal of project
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Pipeline design

Skills evaluated in this interview

Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
4-6 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Mar 2024. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Machine learning algorithms.
  • Ans. 

    Machine learning algorithms are tools used to analyze data, identify patterns, and make predictions without being explicitly programmed.

    • Machine learning algorithms can be categorized into supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.

    • Examples of machine learning algorithms include linear regression, decision trees, support vector machines, and neural networks.

    • These algorithms require training data to learn patte...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Credit risk life cycle
  • Q3. Pandas related questions
Round 2 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Steps of developing a credit risk model
  • Ans. 

    Developing a credit risk model involves several steps to assess the likelihood of a borrower defaulting on a loan.

    • 1. Define the problem and objectives of the credit risk model.

    • 2. Gather relevant data such as credit history, income, debt-to-income ratio, etc.

    • 3. Preprocess the data by handling missing values, encoding categorical variables, and scaling features.

    • 4. Select a suitable machine learning algorithm such as logi...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Pandas related questions
  • Q3. Bagging and Boosting
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Explain AIC and BIC
  • Ans. 

    AIC and BIC are statistical measures used for model selection in the context of regression analysis.

    • AIC (Akaike Information Criterion) is used to compare the goodness of fit of different models. It penalizes the model for the number of parameters used.

    • BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) is similar to AIC but penalizes more heavily for the number of parameters, making it more suitable for model selection when the focus...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Difference between xgboost and lightgbm
  • Ans. 

    XGBoost is a popular gradient boosting library while LightGBM is a faster and more memory-efficient alternative.

    • XGBoost is known for its accuracy and performance on structured/tabular data.

    • LightGBM is faster and more memory-efficient, making it suitable for large datasets.

    • LightGBM uses a histogram-based algorithm for splitting whereas XGBoost uses a level-wise tree growth strategy.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Bagging and boosting

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Pandas basics and SQL joins nlp

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - It was good
Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain a project written in resume.
Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Explain a project from you resume.
Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. What are your strengths?
Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
Selected Selected
Round 1 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Difference between supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Ans. 

    Supervised learning uses labeled data to train a model, while unsupervised learning uses unlabeled data.

    • Supervised learning requires a target variable for training the model.

    • Examples of supervised learning include classification and regression.

    • Unsupervised learning finds patterns and relationships in data without a target variable.

    • Examples of unsupervised learning include clustering and dimensionality reduction.

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is sigmoid function
  • Ans. 

    Sigmoid function is a mathematical function that maps any real value to a value between 0 and 1.

    • Used in machine learning for binary classification problems to produce probabilities

    • Commonly used in logistic regression

    • Has an S-shaped curve

    • Equation: f(x) = 1 / (1 + e^(-x))

  • Answered by AI

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is overfitting and underfitting
  • Ans. 

    Overfitting occurs when a model learns the training data too well, leading to poor performance on new data. Underfitting occurs when a model is too simple to capture the underlying patterns in the data.

    • Overfitting: Model is too complex, fits noise in the training data, performs poorly on new data

    • Underfitting: Model is too simple, fails to capture underlying patterns in the data, performs poorly on both training and new...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What are LLM Models
  • Ans. 

    LLM models, or Language Model Models, are a type of machine learning model that focuses on predicting the next word in a sequence of words.

    • LLM models are commonly used in natural language processing tasks such as text generation, machine translation, and speech recognition.

    • They are trained on large amounts of text data to learn the relationships between words and predict the most likely next word in a given context.

    • Exa...

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare for python questions

Skills evaluated in this interview

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

I applied via Naukri.com and was interviewed in Oct 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Discussion on projects mentioned in the Resume
  • Q2. Two Python live coding questions
  • Q3. Few DL, ML, Transformers, and NLP questions Few questions on deployment tools mentioned in the resume
Round 2 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. General HR discussion

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How many rounds are there in Zangoh Data Scientist interview for experienced candidates?
Zangoh interview process for experienced candidates usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Zangoh interview process for experienced candidates are Resume Shortlist, Aptitude Test and Coding Test.

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