EXL SERVICES
Analyst
WRITTEN TEST
- Quantitative Aptitude, Logical Reasoning,Verbal Ability and English
- There will be a time of 45 minutes for 40 questions.
- Quantitative Aptitude (20 Questions) and 10-10 from the other two.
- A separate section of English is also there.
GROUP DISCUSSION: NO
SKILLS REQUIRED
- Sql/DBMS
- Excel
- Machine Learning and Python is a plus
INTERVIEW GUIDELINES
- The interview round is divided into 2/3 Rounds:
Round 1: Puzzle + Guesstimates Interview
- how many trees there are in your college
- the famous 25 horses top 5 fastest question
- How many tourists visit in a year in your city
- Use 4 fours to make 13 using any mathematical operation
- How many trees are there in your college?
- Which floor egg will not break?
- How can you cut the cake into 8 parts in three cuts?
- Guess the number of footballs sold annually across the world.
- Guess the number of warehouses needed in Bangalore for Flipkart.
- Guess Netflix's revenue in India.
- Guess the number of ping pong balls you can fit in a Boeing 786.
- Guess the number of red cars in Bhopal.
- Using 8,8,3,3 make 24. You are allowed to use bodmas operations.
Round 2: Technical Interview :Technical questions with some mathematical approaches
- SQL Queries
- How does Random Forest work?
- Guess the probability of meeting your friend in a mall on any random day.
- Give the factors to consider while launching a new credit card into the market.
- How can we stop overfitting in case of decision trees.
- A business case Study can also be the touched upon area.
- Explain different types of sql joins.
Round 3: HR Interview/CV Round
- This is the final round.
- The time will be up to 8-10 minutes.
- Do you want to go to a core company?
- Why EXL?
- Basic Resume Questions about aspirations 2 years / 5 years / 7 years down below the line and Strenths and Weakness.
- For how long do you think you will work for the company?
- Why do you want to join analytics despite having a core branch?
- Tell me about yourself.
- What was the impact of covid on your life?
- Why do you want to join this company?
- What do you think a business analyst does?
- How can you benefit our organization?
- Name 5 headlines that happened this week.
- Why do you want to be an analyst?
- Tell me one thing that you are really passionate about.
- How would you approach and solve a problem of conflict within two teams and still get things done under tight timelines?
MPLOYEE.ME TIPS
- Following courses are recommended
- Sql from w3 schools
- Python for Everybody
- Digital Marketing Course by Google
- Excel by CFI
- Practice Probability questions
- Technical Interview at times might ask about Business case Study as well.
- Get familiar with some basic business terms when applying for Consultancy or analytics based companies
- Make some of your informed decisions strategy approaches that might help you in the interview
- Follow Top down approach and MECE to solve the business cases
- Practice Making a strategy in the below business cases:
- Profitability : To measures to increase the profit margins
- Market entry : Calculating risk factors while entering into the new Market and strategizing the same
- Growth : Possible reasons for the revenue drop in a sector, possible reasons and solution for the same
- Pricing : At what pricing the New product to be launched and the factors considered to reduce the risk
- Product launch : Minimising the risk in launching a new product considering the customer behaviour and need. The Approach that can be followed in different sectors
- You should search about that company before going to interview.
- You must have good knowledge about the role of a job for which you have an interview
Below are the points if you have an experience of 1/2 Years
- In technical Round, expect a lot of Questions related to your core
- If you have mentioned python/ML do revise the basic concepts well
- Solve some good case questions to get through the intevriew
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