EXL Service Business Analyst interview experience

After the initial stages, I ended up in multiple back-to-back rounds where the interviewer kept tying questions back to my projects and the skills I’d listed. Across the rounds, I was asked puzzles and logical questions, plus a lot of SQL—everything from basic queries to joins depending on the round. There were also guesstimates sprinkled in, and the focus felt more on how I approached the problem than on reaching a perfect final number.

Some rounds felt more theoretical than others. I had interviews where the questions were mostly conceptual—how I’d think through a scenario, and how