It was relaxed. Some behavioral questions and knowledge-application ones. Questions like tell me a time you worked with a large dataset, what skills did you use, how did you handle missing values, what were the impacts of your analysis.
From what I’ve seen on Glassdoor and my own experience, the process is usually split into two parts.
HR round is more about behavioral fit and motivation — why this role, why the company, and how you communicate.
Hiring manager round goes much deeper. They typically walk through your resume in detail, especially your projects. They focus a lot on:
how you manipulated and cleaned data
how you approached business problems
and how you handled challenges like imbalanced datasets
For example, they might ask what techniques you used — like resampling, class weighting, or choosing the right evaluation metrics like recall or AUC
First virtual HR screening, then an in-person interview. Basically, asking you for your personal experiences and a short SQL question, asking you how to extract the date in a month for the click.