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Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

Review this list of 207 machine learning engineer interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Visa logoAsked at Visa 

    "There are couple of reasons for it - Kind of role : Its a product manager role loaded with analytical work, So working with data in stringent regulatory guideline make it more exciting and thrilling. Location & industry is like - Cherry on the cake, Bangalore weather and BFI is at its all time peak as people spending behavior is changing continuously, it will be interesting to see big giants like visa are managing it."

    Nidhi S. - "There are couple of reasons for it - Kind of role : Its a product manager role loaded with analytical work, So working with data in stringent regulatory guideline make it more exciting and thrilling. Location & industry is like - Cherry on the cake, Bangalore weather and BFI is at its all time peak as people spending behavior is changing continuously, it will be interesting to see big giants like visa are managing it."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
    +4 more
  • "Write a function which Caesar ciphers all the strings so that the first character is "a". Use ascii code points and the modulo operator to do this. Use this function to create a hashmap between each string and the CC-a string. Then go through each key:value pair in the hashmap, and use the CC-a ciphered value as the key in a new defaultdict(list), adding the original string to the value field in the output."

    Michael B. - "Write a function which Caesar ciphers all the strings so that the first character is "a". Use ascii code points and the modulo operator to do this. Use this function to create a hashmap between each string and the CC-a string. Then go through each key:value pair in the hashmap, and use the CC-a ciphered value as the key in a new defaultdict(list), adding the original string to the value field in the output."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "in simple words, linear regression helps in predicting the value whereas logistics regression helps in predicting the binary classification. But lets talk through some example Linear regression model: E-commerce website pricing recommendation engine is built on linear regression model where we do have some variables such as competitor price, internal economics and consumer demand etc when we put this in a supervised learning model, it helps in predicting prices Logistics regression model"

    Anonymous Aardvark - "in simple words, linear regression helps in predicting the value whereas logistics regression helps in predicting the binary classification. But lets talk through some example Linear regression model: E-commerce website pricing recommendation engine is built on linear regression model where we do have some variables such as competitor price, internal economics and consumer demand etc when we put this in a supervised learning model, it helps in predicting prices Logistics regression model"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
    +1 more
  • Dropbox logoAsked at Dropbox 

    "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."

    Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Technical
    +4 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +3

    " 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
    +3 more
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  • TikTok logoAsked at TikTok 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
    +1 more
  • TikTok logoAsked at TikTok 

    "Sharing the approach for functional requirements we tool to solve this question. Functional Requirements This is only for the Registered users What is a "For You" page ? Home page where you get suggestions based on people you follow. Interactions like/share/comments (done by user) Interests (shared by the user during registration or onboarding) sports choices/ region choices/ Video sharing platform. So how many videos should we s"

    Anonymous Hare - "Sharing the approach for functional requirements we tool to solve this question. Functional Requirements This is only for the Registered users What is a "For You" page ? Home page where you get suggestions based on people you follow. Interactions like/share/comments (done by user) Interests (shared by the user during registration or onboarding) sports choices/ region choices/ Video sharing platform. So how many videos should we s"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "FN Given text need to figure out is it following guidelines. Should notify the user in case of not following guidelines. Reason for failure should have misleading/spam/adult filters. NFN High availability High Scalability Low latency of processing Estimations 1M requests/min text - 10kb => 9.5GB/min => 14TB/day API fetchmoderationscore(text) score will be between 0 to 1 more than 0.8 => not following guidelines fetchmoderationscore(text, filter)"

    Deepak K. - "FN Given text need to figure out is it following guidelines. Should notify the user in case of not following guidelines. Reason for failure should have misleading/spam/adult filters. NFN High availability High Scalability Low latency of processing Estimations 1M requests/min text - 10kb => 9.5GB/min => 14TB/day API fetchmoderationscore(text) score will be between 0 to 1 more than 0.8 => not following guidelines fetchmoderationscore(text, filter)"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Find the median of two sorted arrays.'
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 

    "First of all, stack and heap memory are abstraction on top of the hardware by the compiler. The hardware is not aware of stack and heap memory. There is only a single piece of memory that a program has access to. The compiler creates the concepts of stack and heap memory to run the programs efficiently. Programs use stack memory to store local variables and a few important register values such as frame pointer and return address for program counter. This makes it easier for the compiler to gene"

    Stanley Y. - "First of all, stack and heap memory are abstraction on top of the hardware by the compiler. The hardware is not aware of stack and heap memory. There is only a single piece of memory that a program has access to. The compiler creates the concepts of stack and heap memory to run the programs efficiently. Programs use stack memory to store local variables and a few important register values such as frame pointer and return address for program counter. This makes it easier for the compiler to gene"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +2 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +4

    "Any cycle would cause the prerequisite to be greater than the course. This passes all the tests: function canFinish(_numCourses, prerequisites) { for (const [a, b] of prerequisites) { if (b > a) return false } return true } `"

    Jeremy D. - "Any cycle would cause the prerequisite to be greater than the course. This passes all the tests: function canFinish(_numCourses, prerequisites) { for (const [a, b] of prerequisites) { if (b > a) return false } return true } `"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Video answer for 'Design a fake news detection system.'

    " Functional Requirements Content Ingestion\: Ingest news articles from various sources (websites, social media, etc.). Handle different types of content (text, images, videos). Content Analysis\: Extract and preprocess text from articles. Analyze the content for potential indicators of fake news. Model Training and Prediction\: Use machine learning models to classify content as fake or real. Continuously improve models with new data and f"

    Scott S. - " Functional Requirements Content Ingestion\: Ingest news articles from various sources (websites, social media, etc.). Handle different types of content (text, images, videos). Content Analysis\: Extract and preprocess text from articles. Analyze the content for potential indicators of fake news. Model Training and Prediction\: Use machine learning models to classify content as fake or real. Continuously improve models with new data and f"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Machine Learning
    +3 more
  • Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Given the root of a binary tree of integers, return the maximum path sum.'

    "\# 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')"

    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

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 
    +13

    "function isValid(s) { const stack = []; for (let i=0; i < s.length; i++) { const char = s.charAt(i); if (['(', '{', '['].includes(char)) { stack.push(char); } else { const top = stack.pop(); if ((char === ')' && top !== '(') || (char === '}' && top !== '{') || (char === ']' && top !== '[')) { return false; } } } return stack.length === 0"

    Tiago R. - "function isValid(s) { const stack = []; for (let i=0; i < s.length; i++) { const char = s.charAt(i); if (['(', '{', '['].includes(char)) { stack.push(char); } else { const top = stack.pop(); if ((char === ')' && top !== '(') || (char === '}' && top !== '{') || (char === ']' && top !== '[')) { return false; } } } return stack.length === 0"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
    +1 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Video answer for 'Explain Bayes' theorem.'

    "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."

    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

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
    +2 more
  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
    +5 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Move all zeros to the end of an array.'
    +35

    "this solution here is much faster than the exponent reference soln. It is also far more concise and easy to understand def moveZerosToEnd(arr: List[int]) -> List[int]: left = 0 for right in range(len(arr)): if arr[right] == 0: pass else: if left != right: temp = arr[left] arr[left] = arr[right] arr[right] = temp left += 1 return arr `"

    Devesh K. - "this solution here is much faster than the exponent reference soln. It is also far more concise and easy to understand def moveZerosToEnd(arr: List[int]) -> List[int]: left = 0 for right in range(len(arr)): if arr[right] == 0: pass else: if left != right: temp = arr[left] arr[left] = arr[right] arr[right] = temp left += 1 return arr `"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
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