Process 2019-20

1. CV Shortlist

2. Online Test

3. Case Interview

Generic Questions:

1. Tell me something about yourself?

2. Tell us your Strengths, Weakness?

3. Why BOAC role & not Decision Analytics?

4. Why Great Lakes? Why PGPM?

5. What are your Long term plans?

6. Describe your Work experience

7. Why ZS?

8. Have you led a team before?

9. What does ZS do?

10. Why do u want to move from non tech to tech background?

11. Questions about the projects in the CV?

12. Tell me about a project that u lead and failed miserably?

13. Do you have Team handling skills and how will you motivate the team?

14. What was your role in the team you were in previous company?

15. Do you have any leadership experience in your previous job?

16. How will you motivate your team?

Marketing questions?

1. Pharmaceutical case study calculate market share from data

2. Case study on a hotel advertise agency

3. Estimate the market share and margin as per the case data

Analytics questions?

Situation analysis as a consultant in ZS

1. Case based: What can be the reasons behind rise/fall of a particular line graph?

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of tableau and power BI?

3. Identify the redundant elements in the process and how would you optimise the process

Puzzles

1. Guestimate: Estimate the number of customers for a retail store and how would you cluster?
What more data will you need? (Partial data given)

2. Identify the relationship between two graphs given in the case

Other questions:

Q: How many barbers are there in your home town (guesstimate question)

A: suppose total area (in km square) of your home town is 300 and let’s assume there are 3 barber
shop in 1 km square area so total number of barber shop in your home town would be
approximately 3 * 300 = 900 shops.

Now you need to assume average number of barbers in barber shop and you can easily calculate
number of barbers in your home town.

(can find guesstimate questions and answers in ‘case in point’ book)

Q: A cube having a side of 14 cm is painted red on all the faces and then cut into smaller cubes of 1
cm each. Find the total number of smaller cubes

1) have three faces painted

2) have two faces painted
3) have one faces painted (CAT LR question )

A: can use LR concepts to solve this question

They asked us few case based questions which one can easily answer if he/she has done enough
practice of case study.

Ques : Previous job experience.

Ques : Empirical project related questions, (empirical topic was related to analytics and marketing)

Ques : Basic analytics questions about regression, random forest etc..