Position – Full-time Job
Profile- Data Scientist
Process- Fractal Analytics conducted 3 Interview Rounds
Interview Questions
Round 1
- Tell me something about yourself.
- What are your hobbies and interests?
- What is a multinomial logit function?
- The difference between linear and logistic regression?
- Can you use linear regression for classification tasks by putting a threshold on its output?
- What are the few subjects that captivated you in your course?
- Case Study- Optimizing food delivery during the pandemic
- Why do you want to join Fractal analytics?
Round 2
- Walk me through your CV
- What does your typical day look like?
- Give a detailed description of one of your projects.
- How do you handle missing values in your data?
- Is the treatment any different for categorical variables?
- What would you do if 75% of a variable’s observations are missing?
- What are the different types of visualization graphs and charts that you use while exploring the data and when to use which one?
- Explain multicollinearity and why is it a problem?
- How do you circumvent the issue of heteroskedasticity?
- How do you decide which of the variables are not significant to carry on with our analysis?
- Why did you choose F1 score as a performance metric for your algorithm rather than accuracy, precision or recall?
- Why do you have to encode your categorical variables before passing them to your algorithm?
- Guesstimate- Car market sizing question.
Round 3
- Tell me about a situation where you have helped someone to be more creative?
- Have you have led a team successfully? Elaborate.
- Tell me about a situation where you have handled differences of opinions in a team?
- The biggest challenge that you have faced and how did you overcome it?
- What do you know about fractal? How can you provide value to the company?
- Where do you see yourself 5 years down the line?
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