Role: Business Analyst
College: Not Specified
Interview Date: November 2022
Interview Type: On-Campus
Result: Qualified HR round
Difficulty: Moderate to Hard (Quants)
Rounds: 3 rounds
Topics Asked: Logical Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, Quants, Projects, Hobbies, Guesstimates, Puzzles, Probability, Statistics, HR Questions
Experience:
This interview experience for a Business Analyst role at EXL Services took place in November 2022 as an on-campus recruitment.
Round 1: Online Aptitude Test
- 40 questions to be completed in 60 minutes, divided into three sections.
- Logical Reasoning: Easy to moderate level questions.
- Verbal Reasoning: 10 easy questions.
- Quants: 20 questions, described as moderate to hard, and the most time-consuming section.
- Sectional cut-offs were applied.
- Approximately 80 out of 200+ students were selected for the next round.
Round 2: Technical Interview
- The interviewer started with a general introduction, projects, and hobbies.
- Based on the candidate's interest in geopolitics, a guesstimate was given: "Estimate the amount of rice exported to Afghanistan by India in one fiscal year." The candidate could only solve half of it.
- Another guesstimate: "Guess the number of people who travel by metro every day in Lucknow."
- A puzzle was asked: "You have a full bucket containing 24 liters of liquid. You also have three empty buckets: one of 5 liters, one of 11 liters, and one of 13 liters. How could you divide the 24 liters of liquid into three equal parts, so that you have three buckets containing 8 liters each?"
- Resume-based questions, including work in college society and spare time activities.
Round 3: HR Round
- Questions about switching from a core profile to an analytical one.
- Probability question: "What is the probability of getting all heads when we toss three unbiased coins?"
- A question on finding the average marks of students if the sum of those marks is given.
- Statistics-related questions, which the candidate was unable to solve.
- HR-based questions: Instance of facing problems in a team, family background, strengths and weaknesses.
Overall Experience: The candidate qualified for the HR round.