Sr Data Scientist Interview Questions

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ML and coding questions. Shallow and basic ML questions. Coding questions were easy, except for one which was very hard (difficulty level was Expert in geeeksforgeeks) and the interviewer didn't make any efforts to explain it properly.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Walmart Global Tech

3.6
May 3, 2021

ML and coding questions. Shallow and basic ML questions. Coding questions were easy, except for one which was very hard (difficulty level was Expert in geeeksforgeeks) and the interviewer didn't make any efforts to explain it properly.

General interview questions regarding how the Classification metrics like F1, AUC etc can be enhanced by giving a small case study with dataset and baseline confusion metrics. Binary and Multi Class Classification algorithms and a few questions regarding the gradient descent algo training times from problem statement to statement
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Fidelity Investments

4.1
Aug 21, 2025

General interview questions regarding how the Classification metrics like F1, AUC etc can be enhanced by giving a small case study with dataset and baseline confusion metrics. Binary and Multi Class Classification algorithms and a few questions regarding the gradient descent algo training times from problem statement to statement

The business case in the technical interview was the most important part. The scenario had two marketing campaigns running at the same time, and I had to explain how to measure their combined value and decide whether to keep campaign A, campaign B, or both together.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Booking.com

4.1
Jun 16, 2026

The business case in the technical interview was the most important part. The scenario had two marketing campaigns running at the same time, and I had to explain how to measure their combined value and decide whether to keep campaign A, campaign B, or both together.

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