I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Merck (Pune) in Dec 2023
Interview
MCQ-based written aptitude round, followed by written coding test (pandas, SQL), followed by technical interview round 1 after which shortlisted people will go for technical project-based interview round 2 and final selection/offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Logistic Regression with its meaning and why do we use it?
Q: Outliers detection and drawing
Q: Puzzle questions (drum problem, decision tree, estimating requirement, prediction of number of red cars)
Q: Machine Learning Algorithms
Q: Questions based on teamwork.
Q: Questions in deep based on your projects and features
HM reach out directly. He introduce their team first and then ask questions about my research experience based on resume. Finally let me ask questions. The process is smooth and the interviewer is nice.
I Had two rounds of Interviews but after that i didn't get any reply from the Merck team since it took many days for the process,for first interview after the call from hr it took 15 days and after that again i got the 2nd interview after 10 days
2 rounds
Phone screen and a panel interview
Tests case study and a little bit of coding.
Panel interview is about an hour. Ranges from technical, case study and behavioural.
