Aritra: Placed at Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd

27th August 2024

Aritra Basak, roll no. 221282 Masters (M.Sc. 2Yr) in Statistics from IIT Kanpur,, studying in IIT Kanpur will be joining Company - Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd. Job Family Group - Data & AI Job Profile - Full Stack LLM Development Sr Analyst. Here are some brief insights.

Shortlisted Profiles & Companies:

Barclays, Consumer Credit Risk Analyst CITI Bank, Credit Risk Analyst GyanDhan,Data Scientist

Selection Process of the Company you are selected in 1) Resume Shortlist, 2) GD, 3)Test

Resume Shortlist.

Insights on the interview process

Be confident. Process involvement should be there and rather than answering the questions directly, interact with the interviewer, discuss, understand the problem and then take up that question. Mostly questions came from Machine Learning. Live coding in python and python data structure was there.

Sample Interview Questions?

  1. Tossing a coin 100 times results in 40 heads and 60 tails. How to check whether the coin is baised or unbiased? What is the test statistic and it's distribution? What is p-value... it's interpretation. 2. X follows N(5, 1) and Y follows N(7, 1) then, What is the distribution of X+Y. 3. What are the assumptions of logistic regression? How you will judge a logistic regression model is working good or bad? 4. What are precision and recall? How to select the threshold probability for the test data based on these for logistic regression model? 5.What is a decision tree... explain briefly. 6.What will you do when you have categorical regressor variables in your data? Explain One Hot Encoding.

Preparation Resources

An Introduction to Statistical Learning (Book) – W3Schools – GeeksforGeeks – Statquest (Youtube).

Advice for students (do's and don'ts)

Be confident with your answers and for the questions whose answers you don't know just say 'I don't know this', don’t fumble.

Contact

Students' Placement office
109, outreach building
IIT Kanpur, Kanpur-208016
Phone no.: +91 512 259 44 33/34
Email:spo@iitk.ac.in

© Copyright 2026 SPO, IIT Kanpur