ION Group Interview Experience for Data Scientist | On Campus

ION group visited my campus at the start of August, offering 3 roles - SDE, TA(Technical Analyst), and DS (Data Science). I applied for the DS role.

Eligibility Criteria was 75 % in 10th, 12th, and pursuing degree.
The selection process consisted of a total of 6 rounds, 1 online assessment, and 5 interviews.

Online Assessment Round

3500 people applied for all three roles combined and got the link for the online assessment. OA was different for different roles. I will be specifying about the DS role. There were around 20 questions - MCQ questions based on English, aptitude, SQL, and Python, 1 SQL query (medium), and 1 ML problem ( dataset was given, we had to code in Jupyter notebook and submit an output CSV file with our prediction value).

~1100 were selected for 1st interview round. The interviews were taken in groups. My interview was scheduled for the third week of August.

1st Round: Technical (1hr 30 mins)

• Some basic questions on Python, pandas, and matplotlib - codes
• Discussion on the projects and internship. I had a sudoku solver project in my resume so he asked about the algo used and asked to code it in Python.
• Some DBMS concepts and 1 puzzle mislabeled-jars

2nd Round: Case study

• happened just 15-30 mins after the tech round
• The same interviewer asked a case about whether we can open a Cafe business given certain details and what strategies would employ to ensure sales during the starting period.
• Follow up on how to increase profit once the cafe is established.

3rd Round: Stakeholder round (HM)

This round was scheduled on the next day of the case study round. 30 min asked in depth about projects, then asked why data science. What does a Data scientist do? What kind of work do you want to do and asked something like a case, but more technical, like giving consumer goods data with an overstocking issue what steps could be taken, and what data would be needed.

4th round: ION day (Noida office) culture fit

• The travel and stay was arranged by the company.
• GD with ION India head Mr. Sanjay Chikara.
• only 3 questions - intro, passion and why the role you applied.
• After that a question was asked and we needed to solve it as a group.
• Tip: For this round be confident, clear and try to be interactive.

5th round: Future fit

• 10-15 mins, online via teams 2 days after the 4th round.
• General questions -
• Intro, why data scientist
• About my specialization and subjects, what I am good at in the field of data science
• What do you know about ION , what does ION do, what does data scientist at ION do,
• Have u ever been outside India, if given a chance where would you like to go.

Got the selection mail, the next day. 88 students got selected (including all the three roles)