Reply Data Science Interview Questions and Answers (2026 Guide)

Quick answer: Reply is an Italian IT consulting and digital-transformation group that does have a real India office, in Kochi, and one of its specialised units, Valorem Reply, actively hires Data Engineers and Data Governance specialists there. However, we could not find any interview account, question, or process description specific to Reply's India hiring. The interview-process detail below comes from Glassdoor's global aggregate for Reply Data Scientist candidates, which is not broken out by country.

About Reply

Reply S.p.A. is an Italian information-technology consulting, systems-integration and digital-services company, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Turin. It reported revenue of €2.12 billion and about 14,798 employees in 2023. (Wikipedia, Reply (company)) Reply operates as a network of dozens of specialised subsidiary brands rather than one monolithic company, covering areas such as big data, cloud, IoT and digital media; two of these, Data Reply (data and AI consulting) and Valorem Reply (a Microsoft-focused cloud and data consultancy), are the units most relevant to data roles. Reply's own offices page confirms a India office at SmartCity Kochi, Kerala (305 & 306, SCK-01, SmartCity Kochi, 682030), alongside its Turin, Milan, London, Chicago and other global locations. (Reply, Offices & Locations) Job listings independently confirm Valorem Reply is hiring for Kochi-based roles including a Senior Data Engineer working with Azure and Databricks, and a Data Governance Specialist. (Grapevine, Senior Data Engineer at Valorem Reply; Jobaaj, Data Governance Specialist, Cochin/Kochi) So the India hiring itself is real and specifically includes data-engineering-adjacent roles, even though we could not verify India-specific interview content for them.

Reply's Interview Process

The only interview-process detail we could verify comes from Glassdoor's aggregate for the Data Scientist title at Reply, built from 30 interview reviews and 29 submitted interview questions: an overall difficulty rating of 2.6 out of 5, 80% of candidates reporting a positive experience, and an average of 8 days from application to hire. Candidate summaries describe the shape of the loop as a first-round HR interview described as friendly and relaxed, a round where the candidate gives a short self-introduction, and technical rounds conducted with the team the candidate would join. (Glassdoor, Reply Data Scientist Interview Questions) Glassdoor does not break this sample down by country or office, so we cannot say how much, if any, of it reflects Kochi hiring specifically rather than Reply's larger Italy, UK or US operations.

What Candidates Report

Beyond the process shape above, the Glassdoor summary does not surface specific, individually attributable question text we could responsibly repeat as a verified Reply question. Given that Valorem Reply's confirmed open India roles are Azure- and Databricks-centred data engineering positions rather than classical data-science research roles, a candidate applying through Reply's India pipeline today is more likely to meet SQL, cloud data-platform and data-modelling questions tied to Microsoft's stack than a generic statistics-and-ML loop, though we are flagging this as a reasonable inference from the job descriptions rather than a confirmed interview detail.

What We Could Not Verify

We searched Glassdoor, AmbitionBox, Naukri Code360, GeeksforGeeks and Blind specifically for Reply India interview accounts and found none. AmbitionBox returned no Reply-specific interview content in search, and no Naukri Code360 or Blind post attributable to a Reply candidate turned up. A third-party guide (Dataford) that appeared in search results returned an access error (HTTP 429) when we tried to load it directly, so we are not citing anything from it. The Glassdoor process detail above is real but is a global aggregate, not an India-specific breakdown, and we found no evidence of what the Kochi office's own interview loop looks like beyond the roles it is hiring for.

How to Prepare

• SQL and cloud data-platform fundamentals, especially Azure and Databricks, since Valorem Reply's confirmed Kochi openings are built around that stack.

• One project you can walk through end to end, since a self-introduction round is part of the confirmed process shape.

• Prepare for a genuinely conversational HR round first, candidate summaries describe this stage as friendly rather than adversarial, not a reason to under-prepare, but a signal not to expect a stress interview.

• Do not assume Reply's global interview themes apply one-to-one to its India hiring, since we could not confirm that overlap ourselves.