Data Scientist Interview Questions

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

Richard W. - "int getMaxWater(vector& nums) { int n = nums.size(); int mx = INT_MIN; int i=0, j=n-1; while(i<j) { int water = (j - i) * min(nums[i], nums[j]); mx = max(mx, water); if(nums[i] < nums[j]){ i++; } else { j--; } } return mx; } `"See full answer

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

Steve Y. - "Define: How is daily post view calculated Isolate Issues: Data issue Time period Geo IOS vs Android vs Web Correlated Metrics in the funnel DAU Time spent/ scrolls Engagement - likes, comments External factors Competitor actions Big events Internal factors Product launch Feature change"See full answer

Astro S. - "What are they looking for in the answer? "See full answer

Vishal S. - "Product Understanding - Ads are what you see from companies as stories, posts, reels. Post are from users (connections). We have to design an experience which produces maximum engagement while generating ad revenue. Clarifying Questions - Is it specific to posts/stories/reels ? Is there an existing post to ads ratio or do we have to start from scratch? Is it specific to a device/OS? Is it specific to a region/user demographic? Assumption - Existing posts to ads ratio"See full answer

Anonymous Prawn - "Would be better to adjust resolution in the video player directly."See full answer

Aarav G. - "Is there a reason a confidence interval was used to solve this problem over just using the mean/expected value directly?"See full answer

Nikita B. - "Mission: Tiktok's mission is to inspire creativity and Joy. Any business wants to make sure that they are serving the value to their customers: For TikTok customers are: Viewers 2. Content Creators 3. Advertisers So few metrics we could measure are: Time spent/day Total no of videos created/day engagement rate = users who interacted in one of the meaningful action on Tiktok / total users at a day level either likes, share, watched vide for at least 5 mins, created video "See full answer

Avon T. - "Initialize left pointer: Set a left pointer left to 0. Iterate through the array: Iterate through the array from left to right. If the current element is not 0, swap it with the element at the left pointer and increment left. Time complexity: O(n). The loop iterates through the entire array once, making it linear time. Space complexity: O(1). The algorithm operates in-place, modifying the input array directly without using additional data structures. "See full answer

Will I. - "Is it bad to get the answer a different way? Will they mark that as not knowing Bayes Theorem or just correct as it is an easier way to get the answer? The way I went is to look at what happens when the factory makes 100 light bulbs. Machine A makes 60 of which 3 are faulty, Machine B makes 40 of which 1.2 are faulty. Therefore the pool of faulty lightbulbs is 3/4.2 = 5/7 from machine A and 1.2/4.2 = 3/7 from Machine B."See full answer

Dinesh K. - "i dont know"See full answer

Jerry O. - "\# Definition for a binary tree node. class TreeNode: def init(self, val=0, left=None, right=None): self.val = val self.left = left self.right = right class Solution: def maxPathSum(self, root: TreeNode) -> int: self.max_sum = float('-inf')"See full answer

Rick E. - " from typing import List def getnumberof_islands(binaryMatrix: List[List[int]]) -> int: if not binaryMatrix: return 0 rows = len(binaryMatrix) cols = len(binaryMatrix[0]) islands = 0 for r in range(rows): for c in range(cols): if binaryMatrixr == 1: islands += 1 dfs(binaryMatrix, r, c) return islands def dfs(grid, r, c): if ( r = len(grid) "See full answer

Prajwal M. - "from typing import List def maxprofitgreedy(stock_prices: List[int]) -> int: l=0 # buying r=1 # selling max_profit=0 while rstock_prices[l]: profit=stockprices[r]-stockprices[l] maxprofit=max(maxprofit,profit) else: l=r r+=1 return max_profit debug your code below print(maxprofitgreedy([7, 1, 5, 3, 6, 4])) `"See full answer

Guilherme F. - "A much better solution than the one in the article, below: It looks like the ones writing articles here in Javascript do not understand the time/space complexity of javascript methods. shift, splice, sort, etc... In the solution article you have a shift and a sort being done inside a while, that is, the multiplication of Ns. My solution, below, iterates through the list once and then sorts it, separately. It´s O(N+Log(N)) class ListNode { constructor(val = 0, next = null) { th"See full answer

Ilnur I. - "I can try to summarize their discussion as I remembered. Linear regression is one of the method to predict target (Y) using features (X). Formula for linear regression is a linear function of features. The aim is to choose coefficients (Teta) of the prediction function in such a way that the difference between target and prediction is least in average. This difference between target and prediction is called loss function. The form of this loss function could be dependent from the particular real"See full answer