I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at EXL Service (New York, NY) in Sept 2017
Interview
I got a call through referral. The screening was done through phone call .
The first round was telephonic. It started with a general walk through over the resume followed by brain teasers and case interview questions.
More emphasis was on case interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me something about urself.
Tell me some challenging incident at work.
Give an estimate of number of uber cabs running in NYC
I applied through university. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at EXL Service (New York, NY) in May 2022
Interview
The interviews were pretty interesting. Went through 6 rounds. First 2 rounds were on background, SQL, ML algorithms and Data Engineering principles. Next 2 rounds were Case studies. 1 business case study about problem solving and 2nd was technical case study on Database migration system design. Last tech round was with Senior Manager about projects and behavior questions. Final round with VP for cultural fit, joining expectations etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What steps would you take to migrate a client's on premise data warehouse to cloud? ( Topics : Atomicity, STAR schema, Snowflake schema, Data warehouse system design, data governance, data privacy, access issues, road maps etc)
Leet code medium level SQL questions. Leet code easy level python questions.
NLP, Traditional ML Algos, Guesstimates, Behavior questions and situational questions.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at EXL Service in May 2021
Interview
The whole process took about 1hour, from an introduction of yourself, projects you have done, to some case studies. Focus on critical thinking and logic. Coding skills are also included.
Guesstimate to prepare.