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Find numbers typed over formulas in an Excel report
Three kinds of hidden number break Excel reports: a formula overtyped with a value, a rate typed inside a formula (=B5*0.18 instead of pointing at a rate cell), and an adjustment added to one row (=D6-F6+25000). Find…
Final-year student: studying for FDE during placement season
During placement season, treat campus preparation as the priority in drive weeks and the course as the priority in quiet weeks, and decide in advance which course tasks you will drop when a drive is announced. A course…
Final-year data project ideas that aren't clichés, with a rubric
A final-year data project stands out when it answers a specific decision for a named user, compares against a simple baseline, and states what it cannot do — not when it uses the most advanced model. The eight ideas…
Field sales commission with clawbacks for cancelled orders
Treat commission as a ledger, not a monthly formula. Every booked order adds an "earned" event in its booking month; every cancellation inside the clawback window adds a negative "clawback" event in the month it was…
Women in India's workforce: a state-wise PLFS participation project
The Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) lets you compare women's labour force participation across Indian states, and the differences are large enough to make a compelling portfolio project. You will download state-wise…
Feature engineering interview questions with pandas answers
Feature engineering interview questions test whether you can turn raw columns into inputs a model can use without leaking the answer into them. Expect questions on encoding categories, handling missing values, building…
The FDE work week: travel, client calls and on-call questions to ask
A forward deployed engineer's week usually mixes three kinds of time: building and debugging, working directly with a client, and dealing with things that break. How those are balanced — and how much travel and…
FDE customer-scenario round, a mock transcript with scoring notes
A customer-scenario round for a forward deployed engineer (FDE) role puts you in a role-play: the interviewer plays a client with a messy request and a deadline, and you respond as the engineer on the account. It is…
FDE, technical consultant or product engineer: choose by temperament
If you enjoy building but get restless without seeing real users, forward deployed engineering may suit you; if you enjoy shaping a client's decision more than writing the code, technical consulting is the closer fit…
Faridabad to Okhla or Nehru Place: a Violet Line commute plan
If you live in Faridabad and work in Okhla, Nehru Place or anywhere along south-east Delhi, the Violet Line is a single-seat ride with no change of train, which makes it one of the more study-friendly commutes in NCR.…
How to explain AI hallucinations to non-technical stakeholders
Explain AI hallucinations to non-technical stakeholders as a property of how language models work, not a bug that will be fixed next month: the model produces fluent, plausible text, and fluent text is sometimes wrong…
Explain a career gap in a data job interview: scripts by gap type
Explain a career gap in three short parts: one factual sentence on why it happened, one or two sentences on what you did that is relevant to the role, and one sentence on why you are ready and committed now. Keep it to…
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