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OpenAI Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Video answer for 'Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem and how you went about it.'
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    "I work at a startup that makes software for Law Enforcement and the FBI. Our product analyzes calls being made by prison inmates and "listens" for predictors of violence and criminal behavior. Our clients are some of the top state prisons in the country. Recently one of the largest states in the country decided to evaluate our product for their prison system. I demo'd the product to the officers and they seemed to like everything. During the presentation they asked us if the product was ADA com"

    Aabid S. - "I work at a startup that makes software for Law Enforcement and the FBI. Our product analyzes calls being made by prison inmates and "listens" for predictors of violence and criminal behavior. Our clients are some of the top state prisons in the country. Recently one of the largest states in the country decided to evaluate our product for their prison system. I demo'd the product to the officers and they seemed to like everything. During the presentation they asked us if the product was ADA com"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Video answer for 'What is the project you are most proud of?'
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    "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"

    Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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    "For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework: 1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role) Give the project background and what specific problem it solved. 2. Align the project's objective and your role Be specific about your role: were you the le"

    Malay K. - "For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework: 1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role) Give the project background and what specific problem it solved. 2. Align the project's objective and your role Be specific about your role: were you the le"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 

    "We will have to use a second more powerful LLM Model to validate the answers. LLM as a judge"

    Anonymous Partridge - "We will have to use a second more powerful LLM Model to validate the answers. LLM as a judge"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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    "The adjusting context window size in LLM change trade off between reasoning capability, accuracy, computation cost. It influence how attention mechanist allocate resources across the input. Longer context window let it you input greater number of words and have more context to generate proper next token. However llms have lost in the middle issue. They remember the beginning of text and end of text but lost information located in the middle of long input. Another problem is Attention Dilution."

    Alex N. - "The adjusting context window size in LLM change trade off between reasoning capability, accuracy, computation cost. It influence how attention mechanist allocate resources across the input. Longer context window let it you input greater number of words and have more context to generate proper next token. However llms have lost in the middle issue. They remember the beginning of text and end of text but lost information located in the middle of long input. Another problem is Attention Dilution."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
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    "Hallucinations are evaluated by measuring how often generated outputs contain information that is not supported by trusted sources. what hallucination means in context: Intrinsic hallucination: contradicts provided context Extrinsic hallucination: introduces unsupported facts Fabrication: confidently incorrect answers"

    Hardik saurabh G. - "Hallucinations are evaluated by measuring how often generated outputs contain information that is not supported by trusted sources. what hallucination means in context: Intrinsic hallucination: contradicts provided context Extrinsic hallucination: introduces unsupported facts Fabrication: confidently incorrect answers"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Video answer for 'How is gradient descent and model optimization used in linear regression?'

    "Gradient Descent is an optimisation strategy used in several supervised learning models. It is the technique for finding the optimum solution of an objective function. Typically, for a linear regression use case, it is used to find the weights and bias that produce the lowest loss. It involves computing the partial derivative of the objective function with respect to the weight and bias vectors. To find the optima of the function, the derivative is equated to 0, and iteratively the weight and b"

    Megha V. - "Gradient Descent is an optimisation strategy used in several supervised learning models. It is the technique for finding the optimum solution of an objective function. Typically, for a linear regression use case, it is used to find the weights and bias that produce the lowest loss. It involves computing the partial derivative of the objective function with respect to the weight and bias vectors. To find the optima of the function, the derivative is equated to 0, and iteratively the weight and b"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
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    Machine Learning Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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    Artificial Intelligence
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
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    " The Situation A few months ago, our trading platform started experiencing significant latency issues during peak trading hours. This latency was affecting our ability to process real-time market data and execute trades efficiently, potentially leading to substantial financial losses and missed opportunities. Identifying the Problem The first step was to identify the root cause of the latency. I organized a team meeting with our data engineers, DevOps, and network specialists to gather"

    Scott S. - " The Situation A few months ago, our trading platform started experiencing significant latency issues during peak trading hours. This latency was affecting our ability to process real-time market data and execute trades efficiently, potentially leading to substantial financial losses and missed opportunities. Identifying the Problem The first step was to identify the root cause of the latency. I organized a team meeting with our data engineers, DevOps, and network specialists to gather"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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    Concept
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    Machine Learning Engineer
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    "Over-fitting of a model occurs when model fails to generalize to any new data and has high variance withing training data whereas in under fitting model isn't able to uncover the underlying pattern in the training data and high bias. Tree based model like decision tree and random forest are likely to overfit whereas linear models like linear regression and logistic regression tends to under fit. There are many reasons why a Random forest can overfits easily 1. Model has grown to its full depth a"

    Jyoti V. - "Over-fitting of a model occurs when model fails to generalize to any new data and has high variance withing training data whereas in under fitting model isn't able to uncover the underlying pattern in the training data and high bias. Tree based model like decision tree and random forest are likely to overfit whereas linear models like linear regression and logistic regression tends to under fit. There are many reasons why a Random forest can overfits easily 1. Model has grown to its full depth a"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
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  • Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
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    "import time class Task: def init\(self, description, interval=None): self.description = description self.interval = interval self.next_run = time.time() class SimpleTaskScheduler: def init\(self): self.tasks = [] def add_task(self, description, interval=None): self.tasks.append(Task(description, interval)) def run(self, duration=60): end_time = time.time() + duration while time.time() < end_time: curr"

    Yash N. - "import time class Task: def init\(self, description, interval=None): self.description = description self.interval = interval self.next_run = time.time() class SimpleTaskScheduler: def init\(self): self.tasks = [] def add_task(self, description, interval=None): self.tasks.append(Task(description, interval)) def run(self, duration=60): end_time = time.time() + duration while time.time() < end_time: curr"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
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    "Deep Learning is a part of Artificial Intelligence, it's like teaching the machine to think and make decisions on its own. It's like how we teach a child the concept of an apple - it's round, red, has a stem on top. We show them multiple pictures of apples and then they understand and can recognize an apple in future. Similarly, we feed lots of data to the machine, and slowly, it starts learning from that data, and can then make relevant predictions or decisions based on what it has learnt. A co"

    Surbhi G. - "Deep Learning is a part of Artificial Intelligence, it's like teaching the machine to think and make decisions on its own. It's like how we teach a child the concept of an apple - it's round, red, has a stem on top. We show them multiple pictures of apples and then they understand and can recognize an apple in future. Similarly, we feed lots of data to the machine, and slowly, it starts learning from that data, and can then make relevant predictions or decisions based on what it has learnt. A co"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
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    Machine Learning Engineer
    Artificial Intelligence
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    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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