HCLTech

Global IT services and consulting company.

4 Rounds ~21 Days Medium
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Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.

Interview Question Bank

Data Scientist • Technical • medium

How do you determine the optimal number of clusters (K) in a K-Means clustering algorithm?

#Clustering #Unsupervised Learning #Evaluation Metrics
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Data Scientist • Technical • medium

Explain the difference between Random Forest and Gradient Boosting. In what client scenario would you choose one over the other?

#Ensemble Methods #Decision Trees #Model Selection
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Data Scientist • Technical • medium

We are building a fraud detection model for a banking client where fraudulent transactions are less than 0.1%. How do you handle this highly imbalanced dataset?

#Imbalanced Data #SMOTE #Evaluation Metrics
Practice
Data Scientist • Technical • easy

Explain the bias-variance tradeoff. How does increasing the depth of a decision tree affect bias and variance?

#Model Evaluation #Overfitting #Underfitting
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Data Scientist • Technical • medium

What is the mathematical and practical difference between L1 (Lasso) and L2 (Ridge) regularization?

#Regularization #Linear Models #Feature Selection
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Data Scientist • Technical • medium

Explain the ROC-AUC curve. In what scenario would you explicitly choose to evaluate a model using Precision-Recall AUC instead?

#Model Evaluation #Classification Metrics
Practice
Data Scientist • Technical • hard

Explain the working of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and the concept of the 'Kernel Trick'.

#SVM #Mathematics #Classification
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Data Scientist • Technical • hard

How does XGBoost handle missing values internally during the training process?

#XGBoost #Tree Algorithms #Missing Data
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Data Scientist • Technical • easy

Explain the concept of k-fold cross-validation. Why is it preferred over a simple train-test split?

#Model Evaluation #Cross-validation
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Data Scientist • Technical • medium

What is Principal Component Analysis (PCA)? Explain the mathematical intuition behind how it reduces dimensionality.

#Dimensionality Reduction #Linear Algebra #PCA
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