Sr Data Scientist Interview Questions

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Round 1: Recruiter call - Assess fit. Asked very simple SQL questions e.g. group by Round 2: hiring manager round + 90 mins SQL interview right after. - Review past experience. SQL interview is on HackerRank Round 3: 60 mins technical/ case study interview - Asked about metrics to use in evaluating performance - Marketplace metrics Round 4: final interview with director of Strategy and insights - Reviewed past experience - quite casual chat on org, some competency-based questions
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Depop

3.8
Aug 9, 2025

Round 1: Recruiter call - Assess fit. Asked very simple SQL questions e.g. group by Round 2: hiring manager round + 90 mins SQL interview right after. - Review past experience. SQL interview is on HackerRank Round 3: 60 mins technical/ case study interview - Asked about metrics to use in evaluating performance - Marketplace metrics Round 4: final interview with director of Strategy and insights - Reviewed past experience - quite casual chat on org, some competency-based questions

1st round was technical interview on Coderpad 1. 3 SQL tables related to cvs health/ aetna members. 2. Python questions - Got stuck in converting data to appropriate datetime format. 3. Basic machine learning algo questions on - How to fix imbalanced data - What is Random forest - Difference between bagging and boosting - How to fix overfitting
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at CVS Health

3.2
Jul 1, 2021

1st round was technical interview on Coderpad 1. 3 SQL tables related to cvs health/ aetna members. 2. Python questions - Got stuck in converting data to appropriate datetime format. 3. Basic machine learning algo questions on - How to fix imbalanced data - What is Random forest - Difference between bagging and boosting - How to fix overfitting

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