Data Analytics Interview Questions

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Guesstimates : How many people can be accommodated in this building? CAT Puzzles : An ant wants to go from one vertex of the room to the diagonally opposite vertex. What's the shortest route? General questions from resume. Why do you want to join this company?
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Business Analytics Associate

Interviewed at ZS Associates

3.5
May 30, 2015

Guesstimates : How many people can be accommodated in this building? CAT Puzzles : An ant wants to go from one vertex of the room to the diagonally opposite vertex. What's the shortest route? General questions from resume. Why do you want to join this company?

The last question asked you to come up with a price for gas for country 1. They give you an option between two prices: one is a fixed price and the other fluctuates with demand that they ask you to calculate for a few dates. Then they ask you what price you might offer and if you would choose between a mix of the fixed price method and the fluctuating price method.

The last question asked you to come up with a price for gas for country 1. They give you an option between two prices: one is a fixed price and the other fluctuates with demand that they ask you to calculate for a few dates. Then they ask you what price you might offer and if you would choose between a mix of the fixed price method and the fluctuating price method.

Random questions organising meetings with imaginary people. Knowledge of using simultaneous equations tested >5 times in a timed environments. If any of the interview questions have any relevance to anything to do with the job it would be the most dull and pointless job in existence.
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Data Analytics Graduate Programmer

Interviewed at NatWest Group

4
Sep 27, 2022

Random questions organising meetings with imaginary people. Knowledge of using simultaneous equations tested >5 times in a timed environments. If any of the interview questions have any relevance to anything to do with the job it would be the most dull and pointless job in existence.

They asked very specific questions on ML algorithms (eg, give me the three drawbacks of the PCA algorithm), without being interested in my capacity to see the bigger picture (for instance, how to put PCA in the perspective of dimensionality reduction, and how it compares to other algorithms for that purpose).
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Chapter Lead Data Analytics

Interviewed at ING

4.1
Feb 23, 2018

They asked very specific questions on ML algorithms (eg, give me the three drawbacks of the PCA algorithm), without being interested in my capacity to see the bigger picture (for instance, how to put PCA in the perspective of dimensionality reduction, and how it compares to other algorithms for that purpose).

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