PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services network.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
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Interview Question Bank
Data Scientist
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Technical
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hard
Given a dataset of financial transactions with a 0.1% fraud rate, how would you build and evaluate a machine learning model to detect fraudulent activities for a banking client?
#Imbalanced Data
#Fraud Detection
#Evaluation Metrics
#SMOTE
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
What is the difference between L1 and L2 regularization, and in what specific consulting scenario would you choose one over the other?
#Regularization
#Lasso
#Ridge
#Feature Selection
Data Scientist
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Technical
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hard
How does Gradient Boosting differ from AdaBoost? Explain the mathematical intuition behind how XGBoost optimizes its objective function.
#Ensemble Methods
#XGBoost
#Optimization
#Mathematics
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
How do you evaluate the performance of an unsupervised clustering model, such as K-Means, when you don't have ground truth labels?
#Clustering
#Unsupervised Learning
#Evaluation Metrics
Data Scientist
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Technical
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medium
What is the curse of dimensionality, and how does it affect distance-based algorithms like KNN? How do you mitigate it?
#Dimensionality Reduction
#KNN
#PCA
#Feature Engineering
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