PLACEMENT PREPARATION

The first and foremost thing is to get a clarity on the role you prefer and the
Package like a minimum bound and Believe in Yourself
TO REACH THE INTERVIEW
1) CV SHORTLIST:
• Have 6-7 projects and add less than 4 in the CV depending on the role and
company.
• One project from Forage related to credit risk or business analyst or finance.
• One machine learning project again in the data analyst’s domain and relevant
to economics graduates.
• One SQL and Power BI combined project.
• One Excel project or Advanced or intermediate excel certificate.
• One Time Series Project (You’ll mostly do this in Sem 3)
• ATS Check your CVs based on the JD and Have a good match of over 30%.

SOURCES:
• Forage: Free Virtual Work Experience Programs from Top Companies - Forage
(theforage.com)
• Machine Learning:
o Siddharthan YouTube Channel: Complete ML course in 60 Hours -
YouTube
o Projects for practice: Machine Learning Projects - YouTube
o Reading About ML Models: Medium
o ML Projects: Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science
Community and GitHub: Let’s build from here · GitHub ( here you can
search projects already done in various topics and get data and codes as
well)
• Excel: Course: Microsoft Excel - Excel from Beginner to Advanced | Udemy
NOTE:
• Choose projects that you thoroughly understand and can confidently explain. A
straightforward project with a clear explanation is more impressive than an
outstanding project with a poor explanation.
• Keep in mind that this approach is effective only if you are unsure of what you
want. If you have a specific role in mind, tailor your projects to suit that role.
• Do the projects by yourself and understand the codes, so it will be very helpful in
the interviews.

2) APTITUDE BASED SHORTLIST:

• Basic Aptitude:
o Here you got to prepare for Quantitative, Maths, Verbal, Data
interpretation, Patterns and a few companies ask Statistics and Finance.
 • Coding Aptitude:
o Few top companies like JPMC, Accenture have a Coding Aptitude as well
based on Python and SQL mostly.

SOURCES:
• For Basic Aptitude: Aptitude Questions and Answers - IndiaBIX
• For coding Aptitude:
o Python:
▪ Python Online Test | Quiz - Sanfoundry
▪ (1) Decoding Data Science, AI , Generative AI,AI, ML &
Analytics Community | Groups | LinkedIn This linkedin page
has similar questions to that of the coding aptitude in
Accenture and JPMC
o SQL: SQL Exercises (w3schools.com)
o More rigorous Coding: HackerRank - Online Coding Tests and
Technical Interviews and LeetCode - The World's Leading Online
Programming Learning Platform

INTERVIEW PREPARATION
1) COMMUNICATION:
a. Give multiple mocks with your friends.
b. Prepare a nice tell me about yourself. Video 4 - Business Awakening Workshop
Sonntag (youtube.com)

2) CV PREPARATION:
a. Most of your interviews will be based on your cv, internships, projects and
skills.
b. Try this flow:
i. Objective: In a single sentence clearly stating what you want to
achieve with that project.
ii. Data: Where you got it, what kind (Eg, time series, panel? …etc) and
what does it contain.
iii. Methodology: How you achieved the stated objectives.
iv. Conclusion with insights: What are the major actionable insights you
got from it if internship how did you add value to the company.
c. When there is Flow and clarity, the interviewer will always understand, what
you are trying to tell. The objective of this flow to get flow and clarity.

3) STATISTICS:
a. Most interviews have questions on statistics, like the distributions, what is
Central limit theorem, Law of large numbers, correlation, hypothesis testing.
b. Knowing what the concept is good enough and formulas of basic metrics like
correlation, covariance.
4) ECONOMETRICS:
a. All you need to know is.
i. The CLRM assumptions,
ii. when they fail
iii. when they fail what happens (Eg , multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity..
etc),
iv. how to detect and deal with them.
v. Few real-world examples of the same.

5) MACROECONOMICS:
a. The major happenings in India and Major concepts like inflation, GDP,
interest rate, exchange rate will be handy in the interview.

6) GUESSTIMATES:
a. The approach matters and try to have 3-4 layers.
b. For Example, what is the number of cars in Chennai?
First layer: Assume population of Chennai is 4cr,
Second layer: Assume there are 4 people in a household then 75 lac
household,
Third layer: Based on income, let’s say 10% in high income, 60% is medium
income and 30% is low-income, low-income can’t afford it so 70%*75 lacs=
52.5 lacs,
Fourth layer: High income let’s say all have 3 cars, in middle income lets say
upper middle (30%) has 2 cars and low middle (20%) some prefer to rent cars
so zero cars and others in middle income have 1 car .
Therefore, the final number = 7.5 lac * 3+ 55lac * 30% * 2+ 55lac*50%*1
=83 lac approximately.

7) PUZZLES:
a. You searched for data science puzzles - AIM (analyticsindiamag.com) mostly
the interviews have this kind of puzzles.

8) HR AND SITUATIONAL QUESTIONS:

a. Watch a lot of YouTube videos this is where many people miss it.
b. Like where you see yourself in five years, biggest weakness, Strengths.

9) COMPANY AND QUESTIONS TO HR:

a. Finally, once the company comes, pay attention to the ppt, and make notes of
the pre-placement talk.
b. Read about the company and their products.
c. Try to align your Hr answers with the principles of the company.
d. Prepare questions to ask for the interviewer.
e. Read and understand the role they are coming for.
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