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Pinterest Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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Asked at Pinterest, Meta, Reddit • 3 months ago
Design a product recommendation system.
Machine Learning
System Design
6 answers
Machine Learning
System Design
Asked at Pinterest, Amazon • 10 months ago
Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm.
IDE
Easy
Coding
Machine Learning
14 answers
Coding
Machine Learning
Asked at Pinterest, Meta • 7 months ago
Given a list of strings, find all strings that encode to the same value using a Caesar Cipher. (A Caesar Cipher rotates characters, e.g. in CC3: a->d, b->e, ..., z->c)
Data Structures & Algorithms
Coding
1 answer
Data Structures & Algorithms
Coding
Asked at Pinterest • 3 years ago
Design spam detection on Pinterest.
System Design
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System Design
Asked at Pinterest • 3 years ago
Explain the differences between ReLU and Sigmoid.
Concept
1 answer
Concept
Asked at Pinterest, Capital One, Google + 1 more • 3 years ago
Tell me about a machine learning project you worked on.
Machine Learning
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Machine Learning
Asked at Pinterest • 3 years ago
Explain the differences between nonconvex and convex functions.
Concept
1 answer
Concept
Asked at Pinterest • 3 years ago
Why do you want to work at Pinterest?
Behavioral
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Behavioral
Asked at Pinterest • 3 years ago
For a dataset with a million data points, would you use a DNN or KNN? Why?
Concept
1 answer
Concept
Asked at Pinterest • 3 years ago
Explain data drifting.
Concept
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Concept

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