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Updated 21 Apr 2024

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7 interviews found

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

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

Round 1 - Assignment 

I was goven an assignment to work on - code the machine learning solution and present it in slides why I did it, how I did it, the rationale behind my steps and so on.

Round 2 - Assignment 

It was a technical discussion with questions from statistics, my previous projects and so on.

Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. It was general HR questions.
  • Q2. General answers
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Around 30 MCQs on the Aptitude test plus 2 basic coding questions.

Round 2 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. I was asked to give a short presentation on any ML project I worked on and then follow-up questions
Round 3 - Technical 

(4 Questions)

  • Q1. Types of supervised learning problems.
  • Ans. 

    Supervised learning problems involve predicting an output variable based on input data with labeled examples.

    • Classification: Predicting a categorical label (e.g. spam/not spam)

    • Regression: Predicting a continuous value (e.g. house prices)

    • Ranking: Predicting the order of a set of items (e.g. search engine results)

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. Explain Logistic regression.
  • Ans. 

    Logistic regression is a statistical model used to predict the probability of a binary outcome based on one or more predictor variables.

    • Logistic regression is used when the dependent variable is binary (0/1, True/False, Yes/No, etc.).

    • It estimates the probability that a given observation belongs to a particular category.

    • The output of logistic regression is a probability score between 0 and 1.

    • It uses the logistic functio...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Explain Decision Trees.
  • Ans. 

    Decision Trees are a popular machine learning algorithm used for classification and regression tasks.

    • Decision Trees are a tree-like structure where each internal node represents a feature or attribute, each branch represents a decision rule, and each leaf node represents the outcome.

    • They are easy to interpret and visualize, making them popular for exploratory data analysis.

    • Decision Trees can handle both numerical and c...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q4. Asked 2 puzzles from InterviewBit.

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for ZS Data Science Associate interview:
  • Machine Learning
  • Python

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Q5. Explain Decision Trees.
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via campus placement at Delhi University - Hindu College and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

A test of 10+ questions was conducted online- mostly mcq based but last question had a problem which needed to be solved via coding

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Showed data and asked what analysis can be made from this
  • Q2. Asked about the features that can be build on particular healthcare data
Round 3 - HR 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Asked questions about hobbies
  • Q2. Strength and weaknesses

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident. They also wanted to look up at the github profile that i mentioned in my CV.

I applied via campus placement at The LNM Institute of information Technology, Jaipur and was interviewed before Jun 2020. There was 1 interview round.

Interview Questionnaire 

1 Question

  • Q1. Basic data science questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Prepare well

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

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. What is bias v variance tradeoff
  • Q2. When should bagging v boosting techniques be used
Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Recruitment Consulltant and was interviewed in Jun 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Video questions were asked and around 40 aptitude questions to solve within 12 minutes

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Assignment 

Assignment was in word document , need to complete it and submit it post assessing it they will het back to us via mail

ZS Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in ZS Data Science Associate interview?
ZS interview process usually has 3 rounds. The most common rounds in the ZS interview process are Technical, Assignment and HR.
How to prepare for ZS Data Science Associate 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 ZS. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at ZS expect are Machine Learning, Predictive Modeling, Data Science, Analytical Chemistry and Data Mining.
What are the top questions asked in ZS Data Science Associate interview?

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