Capgemini
Global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
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Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Scientist
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between Bagging and Boosting. Give an example of an algorithm for each.
#Ensemble Methods
#Random Forest
#XGBoost
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
How do you handle highly imbalanced datasets in a fraud detection project? What metrics would you use to evaluate your model?
#Imbalanced Data
#SMOTE
#Evaluation Metrics
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
How do you evaluate a clustering model when ground truth labels are not available?
#Unsupervised Learning
#Clustering
#Evaluation Metrics
Data Scientist
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Technical
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easy
What are the key differences between L1 (Lasso) and L2 (Ridge) regularization? When would you use one over the other?
#Regularization
#Linear Models
#Feature Selection
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
Why would you choose XGBoost over a Random Forest for a tabular dataset?
#XGBoost
#Random Forest
#Model Selection
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
Explain the ROC curve and AUC. When would you use Precision-Recall AUC instead of ROC-AUC?
#Evaluation Metrics
#Classification
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
How does a Support Vector Machine (SVM) handle non-linear data?
#SVM
#Kernel Trick
#Math
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
What is target leakage in machine learning, and how do you prevent it during feature engineering?
#Data Leakage
#Feature Engineering
#Model Validation
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