Wells Fargo Interview Questions by Vinay Kumar, IIT B
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:
English comprehension (15 mins), Business Analysis (25 min), Automata (Programming Exercise – 2 Ques, 1 hr)
Technical Round 1:
- Walk us through your CV.
- What is Bayes Theorem? They then asked about a related problem.
- Tell us about your M.Sc. Project.
- What is PCA and how to obtain PCA using singular value decomposition?
- Linear regression vs logistic regression.
- Lasso vs Ridge vs Elastic Net
- Explain K means clustering and give a real-life example.
- Tell us the relative position of mean, median, and mode in case of positively and negatively skewed distribution.
- Questions on probability distributions, permutation, and combination, distributing k distinct balls in n identical boxes
Technical Round 2:
- Tell me about yourself.
- Does standardization have any impact on the performance of the model in the case of a random forest?
- What is multicollinearity? How do you detect it? How do you treat it?
- Does multicollinearity impact the prediction of a machine learning algorithm?
- How is XGBoost different from gradient boosting?
- Are you familiar with OOP in python?
- On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your python skills?
- What are the different data structures in python and compare each one of them?
- Explain working behind random forest algorithm.
- You have done most of your projects on data science so why do you want to go for the finance profile?
- Do you know about options, futures, and other derivatives?
HR Round:
- Tell me about yourself.
- Tell me about your family and educational background.
- Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?
- What makes you wake up in the morning?
- Suppose your co-worker working on a project with you drops the project in between. How will you make sure that the project is completed before the deadline?
- Can you describe your time management skills?
- Why do you want to work for our company?
- What do you think makes you an asset to the company?
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