Data Science Associate applicants have rated the interview process at ZS Associates with 2.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 29% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Science Associate roles take an average of 22 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at ZS Associates overall takes an average of 18 days.
Common stages of the interview process at ZS Associates as a Data Science Associate according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Background check: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
Presentation: 22%
One on one interview: 11%
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at ZS Associates (Mumbai) in Sep 2020
Interview
The first round was an Data Science MCQ + DSA coding round. Post this, the interviews were extremely smooth. Questions about basics were asked. I had to present one of my BTech projects and the interviewer asked my in-depth questions. There were few riddles asked.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at ZS Associates
Interview
After successfully clearing the online assessment, which included both aptitude and technical sections, I was invited to attend an online interview. The entire process, from the assessment to the interview stage, took approximately one to two weeks to complete.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I have been asked abiut my resume and projects.
then basics of data preprocessing and machine learning.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at ZS Associates (Warangal) in Oct 2025
Interview
In my first-round technical interview, the interviewer started by asking for my introduction, then progressed to a discussion about my projects. The interview concluded with questions evaluating my foundational knowledge of machine learning, performance metrics, basic statistics, and the pandas Python library.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the 25th percentile of a particular column of a dataset. this is one of the question interviewer asked me
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at ZS Associates (Bengaluru) in Oct 2025
Interview
first, the interviewer asked me to introduce and then asked multiple questions on my projects for 20 min and asked some basic ml questions like what will u do if your model overfit , underfit and asked me to explain decision trees followed by 2 guesstimates and 2 puzzles and finally a simple python question
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Question 1
guesstimate how may messages will be sent in one minute in allover india