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Was mostly grilled on a few case studies and a lot of ML fundamentals. Make sure you understand all the ML techniques you've used to a fair bit of depth. Even the case studies were decently challenging, as opposed to other DSaaS companies where they were either too vague or too straightforward.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Fractal

4.1
Jun 18, 2019

Was mostly grilled on a few case studies and a lot of ML fundamentals. Make sure you understand all the ML techniques you've used to a fair bit of depth. Even the case studies were decently challenging, as opposed to other DSaaS companies where they were either too vague or too straightforward.

Q: Can you explain one of your projects end to end ? Q: Can you explain the concept of over-fitting in simple words ? Q: Share a experience where you were challenged ? Q: What do you really want from life, why do you want to move to Fractal ?
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Fractal

4.1
Nov 12, 2020

Q: Can you explain one of your projects end to end ? Q: Can you explain the concept of over-fitting in simple words ? Q: Share a experience where you were challenged ? Q: What do you really want from life, why do you want to move to Fractal ?

1. "Explain the tradeoff between bias and variance." 2. "Explain what regularization methods are." 3. "Explain how to build a decision tree." 4. "Explain the difference between bagging models and boosting models." 5. "Explain the difference between GRU and LSTM models." 6. "Explain the difference between a CNN and RNN model." 7. "Explain how transforms work." 8. "Explain how BERT works."
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Globant

3.6
Oct 5, 2023

1. "Explain the tradeoff between bias and variance." 2. "Explain what regularization methods are." 3. "Explain how to build a decision tree." 4. "Explain the difference between bagging models and boosting models." 5. "Explain the difference between GRU and LSTM models." 6. "Explain the difference between a CNN and RNN model." 7. "Explain how transforms work." 8. "Explain how BERT works."

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