Pinterest Machine Learning Engineer (MLE) Interview Guide
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Machine Learning Engineer
Pinterest
Submitted Dec 5, 2023
Older formatDecember 2023
Questions asked
- Design a product recommendation system.
- Tell me about a machine learning project you worked on.
- For a dataset with a million data points, would you use a DNN or KNN? Why?
- Why do you want to work at Pinterest?
- Design spam detection on Pinterest.
- Explain the differences between nonconvex and convex functions.
- Explain the differences between ReLU and Sigmoid.
- Where do vanishing gradients occur in a neural network?
- Explain data drifting.
- Explain overfitting.
- Explain regularization.
- Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm.
