Wells Fargo Interview Questions by Netra Laxmikant Prabhu
Position : Full Time Job
Profile : Corporate Model Risk Analyst
Process : Aptitude and Technical Test followed by 2 Technical Interviews and 1 HR interview
Placement Process
Aptitude and Technical Test:
Basic math, statistics, logical reasoning, business analytics, English and 2 coding questions(medium difficulty)
Technical Interview Round 1
- Tell me about yourself.
- Will you walk us through your internship project.
- What is underfitting?
- What is a time series?
- Is every stochastic process a time series?
- When you get data, what are the important measures that you look at the very first step?
- What is skewness and kurtosis?
- If Mean < Median < Mode what can you say about this scenario?
- Tell us about your M.Sc. Project.
- What is a mixture of distributions (this was asked in relation with my project)?
- Define multicollinearity and how to address the problem of multicollinearity?
- What are the consequences of autocorrelation and multicollinearity?
- Explain hypothesis testing in layman terms.
- How proficient are you with any of the coding languages?
- What are basic data types in python and what are the advantages of one over another?
- What is the difference between list and tuples?
Technical Interview Round 2
- Tell me about yourself
- Walk us through your time series project.
- What are different algorithms we can use for classification?
- Can logistic regression be used for multiclass classification and if yes then how?
- Tell us about bagging and boosting and which of them will overfit?
- What are different metrics used for evaluation?
- How would you explain PCA to a child?
- What are the different techniques used for dimensionality reduction?
- They gave me simple function mapping. Then they asked me how many relations are possible for a given domain and range set. It was a simple mathematical question.
- What is heteroscedasticity and what kind of problems arise due to heteroscedasticity?
- Define stationarity? What is weakly stationary and what is strong stationarity?
- Some questions based on consistency and CLT were also asked.
On every question they tried to check the basic understanding and knowledge of the topic.
HR Interview Round
- Tell me about yourself.
- Experience about your previous internships.
- Why would you like to come to this field? What was the motivation behind this?
- How do you manage studies and sports both even after having so much academic pressure in IIT?
- What are your strengths?
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