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Santander Data Scientist Interview Questions

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Statistics & ProbabilityStart here. 4 questions · ~35 min
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Machine Learning5 questions · ~44 min
Bias Variance and RegularizationMedium

Explain the bias-variance tradeoff mathematically and how L1 and L2 regularization change model complexity and weights.

Bias-Variance TradeoffRegularizationSupervised LearningSantander
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NLP4 questions · ~35 min
Build a Sentiment ClassifierEasy

Classify customer reviews as positive, negative, or neutral using a practical NLP pipeline.

Text ClassificationSentiment AnalysisTokenizationSantander
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Behavioral & Leadership8 questions · ~71 min
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More topics7 questions · ~62 min
Cohort Conversion Before vs AfterHard
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Compare pre and post campaign conversion rates by customer signup cohort using joins, a CTE, conditional aggregation, and date intervals.

sqlCohort AnalysisAggregationsSantander
Incrementality Test for Card CampaignHard

Design an incrementality experiment for a co-branded card campaign, including lift metric, power, guardrails, and launch criteria.

experiment designincremental liftGuardrail MetricsSantander
Diagnose KPI Drop After ReleaseMedium

Diagnose a post-release KPI drop by separating instrumentation issues from real behavior changes and tracing the problem through the metric hierarchy.

KPILeading IndicatorsDiagnosisSantander
Interpreting ROC-AUC in BankingMedium

Assesses your ability to evaluate classifiers with threshold-independent metrics relevant to banking.

AUC-ROCAccuracyModel MetricsSantander
Geospatial Branch Location LogicHard

Evaluates your end-to-end reasoning for data-driven site selection for a bank expansion decision.

User Segmentsuser valuecompetitive landscapeSantander
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