ZS Business Analyst Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare for case study round in advance. Be thorough with basic aptitude topics. You also have to video record urself answering to quiz type question and H-R based question. There are elimination rounds before getting to case study round. All the best.

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Quickly run through few basic level case studies, and guesstimates for the interview

Round: Test
Experience: Written exam: This section contains basic aptitude questions – logical reasoning, math and english (vocabulary and comprehension). It is an outsourced test conducted by Aspiring Minds
Tips: NA

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: A 10-12 page case study would be given with a lot of data, tables, graphs and you need to solve it in 40 mins. Total 3 segments with 2 questions per segment. Later you need to debrief the case study to the interviewer and need to defend your answers. To answer these, you will have to apply basic Math and logical reasoning.The catch here is the debriefing interview where you will have to explain your reasoning and math behind each answer. The interviewer will try and point out flaws in your approach. You should be able to defend your reasoning by providing answers to the pointed-out-flaws. The interviewer will also ask other questions around the given case to test some more of your logic.
If you are able to defend your case, you would have rocked the round. The round is to simply test the application of data and rationale.
Tips: NA

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: Behavioral. Resume based questions, questions on your 4 years of college life, questions on your final year project. Guesstimate, brain teasers, puzzles etc. are also asked
Tips: NA

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round is taken by one of the seniormost employees in India. In this round, the interviewer will ask you questions about your personal and professional lives. About your hobbies, strengths, weaknesses and so on.
Tips: NA

College Name: NA

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: They kept a minimum CGPA criterion of 6.5, which is not hefty at all.

Round: Test
Experience: The written is taken by AMCAT and is really easy, so it is important that you perform exceptionally well to make it into the next shortlist. Also, although the company people don't admit it, I'm sure that there is an upper cut-off, so keep that in mind too.
Tips: Don't worry! It's not that difficult to perform well in the test. Brush up your aptitude a little. Data Interpretation is usually easy. Take help of your MBA aspirant buddies to help you with the preparation.
Total Questions: 60

Round: Group Discussion
Experience: GD is a fish market! Everyone would want to speak, no matter if they really have the points or not. Show some leadership, and keep a calm head, speak when you're absolutely sure of what you're saying.
Tips: GD is supposed to be a very dilute filter. You will definitely make it through unless you perform exceptionally bad.
Duration: 15 minutes

Round: Problem Statement
Experience: The case study is pretty straightforward, and mostly simple math is involved. It would help a great deal if you practice a few case studies prior to this round.
Tips: During the interview, the main focus is not on how correctly you solved the case study, but rather on your approach. So make sure that you take the interviewer through a detailed path of how you approached the case study and reached conclusions.

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: In this interview, your entire resume would be scanned and questions and guesstimates would be asked based on that. So make sure that you write only what you know in your resume.

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This interview is taken by one of the principals of the company. Now these are people with mounds of experience so don't even try to bluff them! It is a pretty straightforward and cool interview where they'll ask you about your family, hobbies, and other general things.
Tips: It is a myth that the interviewer decides the course of the interview. In fact, that is always in your hands. Focus the interview on your skills and golden areas, and try to avoid speaking about your shortcomings. The interview will automatically flow into that direction.

Skills: Logical Reasoning, Analytical Skills
College Name: NIT BHOPAL
Motivation: One of the best companies visiting campus.