Company Name: Axis Bank

Designation: Business Reporting Analyst

Company Website: http://www.axisbank.com/

Industry: Banking

What does the company do:

Axis Bank is the third-largest private sector bank in India. The Bank offers the entire spectrum of financial services
to customer segments covering Large and Mid-Corporates, MSME, Agriculture, and Retail Businesses.
The Bank has a large footprint of 4,528 domestic branches (including extension counters) with 12,044 ATMs &
5,433 cash recyclers spread across the country as of 31st March 2020. The overseas operations of the Bank are
spread over eleven international offices with branches at Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai (at the DIFC), Colombo,
Shanghai, and Gift City-IBU; representative offices at Dhaka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and an overseas subsidiary
at London, UK. The international offices focus on corporate lending, trade finance, syndication, investment
banking, and liability businesses. Axis Bank is one of the first new-generation private sector banks to have begun
operations in 1994. The Bank was promoted in 1993, jointly by Specified Undertaking of Unit Trust of India (SUUTI)
(then known as Unit Trust of India), Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), General Insurance Corporation of
India (GIC), National Insurance Company Ltd., The New India Assurance Company Ltd., The Oriental Insurance
Company Ltd., and United India Insurance Company Ltd. The shareholding of Unit Trust of India was subsequently
transferred to SUUTI, an entity established in 2003. With a balance sheet size of Rs. 9,15,165 crores as of 31st
March 2020, Axis Bank has achieved consistent growth with a 5-year CAGR (2014-15 to 2019-20) of 15% each in
Total Assets, Deposits, and Advances.

Size:
Revenue: 80,847 crores INR
Employees: 78,300 Employees

Job Description:

Technical Skills:
- Tools like SAS VA, Tableau, Power BI, SAP BO or other similar tools.
- dimensional database modeling
- MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Oracle / SQL / SAS EG, SAS DI / R Analytics/ Python
- Informatica

Responsibilities:
- Developing dashboards and Self-service BI and analytical tools that allow business users to gather and analyze
data without support from a data analyst or scientist and make insights-driven decisions.
- Assist businesses to create a culture of data within, putting information in the hands of more people, empowering
them to gain never before seen insights.
- Manages, analyses, and helps to improve the key performance indicators of the organization
- Democratizing data through BI Tools like Power BI, Tableau, SAS Viya, or other contemporary tools
- Enable leadership with actionable insights towards opportunities, threats, and action plans
- Ability to work independently and multi-task effectively in a high volume and complex environment

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- Supporting large and complex programs through creative and thoughtful solutions
- Liaising across multiple teams and stakeholders to deliver solutions
- Familiarity with database modeling technologies and Programming languages like Oracle, PL/SQL
- Outstanding in Storytelling: i.e. the ability to structure and synthesize within your communication
- Expertise in the end-to-end project management for process automation and reporting
- Proven Project management skills with demonstrated results in driving small to medium scale projects

Interview process decoded

No of rounds - 3

Round 1:
Online Test: SQL, Tableau
Questions:
1. SQL queries regarding join, delete and truncate
2. Python questions regarding data types, pattern printing
3. RDBMS questions
4. Acid property in DBMS"

Round 2:
Face to face Interview, Video Call, Telephonic: SQL, Python, Tableau
Questions:
1. Explain Joins and different types of Joins
2. Difference between a Group and a Set in Tableau
3. Power BI Examples
4. Why do we use subqueries inside a bigger query?
5. How to make a Pareto chart in Tableau
6. What is a self join?
7. How to replace null values.
8. How to import data from different servers in a single table.
9. Difference between Union and Union all.
10. Past project experiences
11. Why do you wanna get into this role?
12. Past SQL projects.
13. About the Current Company and current Project.
14. Truncate and Delete in SQL
15. Different kind of charts in Tableau
16. Different Modelling Techniques
17. A case study regarding Credit Card distribution.
18. Matrix Transpose in SQL
19. Data Collection process from the client
20. A scenario was given and SQL query for that. Work Experience using SQL.
21. Tableau questions- What are measures and dimensions? What is the difference between live and extract?
22. What are the activities that can be done using tableau? Work experience using Tableau.
23. Few columns were shown on excel and asked to Develop KPIs.
24. Introduction and work experience. Questions from resume

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Round 3:
Telephonic: HR Round
Questions:
1. Introduction and work experience.
2. Why you want to join Axis Bank
3. Salary Discussion/expectations
2. Questions from resume.
4. General HR questions like where do you see yourself in 5years etc."

Overall Exp:
The majority of questions were on Tableau. Types of filters, dual-axis use.
1. Difficulty level is moderate to high.
2. Technical interview lasted for 45 minutes.
3. Be confident while attending the interviews.
4. Communication skill plays a key role to clear the interviews.

Additional Reference Materials:

Tableau Prep Session Recording:
https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/tjtkTjPx_fzKH094CyYpCLeDXc-QeL1bSkl6JKdwUFJo9bnZc8IstivHBEGpM-
NF.Q_lfNTVSzVMpxH25 (1st one hour is on Tableau)

SQL:
https://olympus1.greatlearning.in/online_session/recordings?
access_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJtZW50b3JlZF9zZXNzaW9uX2lkIjo3ODA2MDJ9.ELWgDXDe
EBRPcNYTToyJAGNAhmD4kzDhpGH-0aLPOrM

Sample Interview Questions:

Tableau:
1. What is Data Blending? When would you use it?
2. What is the difference between join and data blending?
3. What is the difference Live and Extract?
4. Will making changes in the Story reflect in worksheet and dashboard?
5. How do you parameterize components in your reports?
6. Explain. tde,twb (and other extensions)
7. What are the graphs that you have used in your projects?
8. What is the difference between dimensions and measures?
9. Explain different types of JOINS supported by Tableau
10. What is the difference between histogram and bar chart?
11. How to make your dashboard interactive?
12. What’s a heat map?
13. What’s a tree map?

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SQL:
1. Are NULL values in a database the same as that of blank space or zero?
2. Explain the difference between the DELETE, TRUNCATE, DROP command in a DBMS.
3. What is meant by normalization and denormalization?
4. Explain different types of keys in a database.
5. What are Constraints in SQL?
6. What are some common clauses used with SELECT query in SQL?
7. List the different types of relationships in SQL.
8. What is an Alias in SQL?
9. Difference between Rank and Dense_Rank function
10. Difference between Lead and Lag function

*** Please be noted that these are sample questions and kindly use them as your guidance during preparation***

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