Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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  • 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
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +5

    "A few months ago I joined a micro-services platform engineering team as their manager, at that time my team was struggling to deliver towards an upcoming production deadline for a customer facing product. Production date had been moved 5 times already and there were about 40% of product features which were remaining to be tested and signed off to move to production . I was made responsible to deliver the release of this product within the deadline and turnaround the software delivery throughput."

    Shuchi A. - "A few months ago I joined a micro-services platform engineering team as their manager, at that time my team was struggling to deliver towards an upcoming production deadline for a customer facing product. Production date had been moved 5 times already and there were about 40% of product features which were remaining to be tested and signed off to move to production . I was made responsible to deliver the release of this product within the deadline and turnaround the software delivery throughput."See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
    +2 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
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Find the median of two sorted arrays.'
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
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  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    Video answer for 'How do you select the value of 'k' in the k-means algorithm?'
    +1

    "As an interviewer, I have asked this question to candidates in the past. Here are the major topics I am looking for in an interview The candidate should understand that there are ways of measuring the loss of a particular clustering. For example, we can take the average distance of each point to it's cluster center. The candidate should understand that this loss will always decrease as the number of clusters increases. For that reason, we can't just pick the value of K that minimizes the l"

    Michael F. - "As an interviewer, I have asked this question to candidates in the past. Here are the major topics I am looking for in an interview The candidate should understand that there are ways of measuring the loss of a particular clustering. For example, we can take the average distance of each point to it's cluster center. The candidate should understand that this loss will always decrease as the number of clusters increases. For that reason, we can't just pick the value of K that minimizes the l"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm.'
    +6

    "Even more faster and vectorized version, using np.linalg.norm - to avoid loop and np.argpartition to select lowest k. We dont need to sort whole array - we need to be sure that first k elements are lower than the rest. import numpy as np def knn(Xtrain, ytrain, X_new, k): distances = np.linalg.norm(Xtrain - Xnew, axis=1) k_indices = np.argpartition(distances, k)[:k] # O(N) selection instead of O(N log N) sort return int(np.sum(ytrain[kindices]) > k / 2.0) `"

    Dinar M. - "Even more faster and vectorized version, using np.linalg.norm - to avoid loop and np.argpartition to select lowest k. We dont need to sort whole array - we need to be sure that first k elements are lower than the rest. import numpy as np def knn(Xtrain, ytrain, X_new, k): distances = np.linalg.norm(Xtrain - Xnew, axis=1) k_indices = np.argpartition(distances, k)[:k] # O(N) selection instead of O(N log N) sort return int(np.sum(ytrain[kindices]) > k / 2.0) `"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +2 more
  • Goldman Sachs logoAsked at Goldman Sachs 
    +9

    "public static Integer[] findLargest(int[] input, int m) { if(input==null || input.length==0) return null; PriorityQueue minHeap=new PriorityQueue(); for(int i:input) { if(minHeap.size()(int)top){ minHeap.poll(); minHeap.add(i); } } } Integer[] res=minHeap.toArray(new Integer[0]); Arrays.sort(res); return res; }"

    Divya R. - "public static Integer[] findLargest(int[] input, int m) { if(input==null || input.length==0) return null; PriorityQueue minHeap=new PriorityQueue(); for(int i:input) { if(minHeap.size()(int)top){ minHeap.poll(); minHeap.add(i); } } } Integer[] res=minHeap.toArray(new Integer[0]); Arrays.sort(res); return res; }"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +2 more
  • Databricks logoAsked at Databricks 
    Video answer for 'What is your leadership style?'
    +7

    "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"

    onering2ruleall - "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
    +4 more
  • Snap logoAsked at Snap 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Concept
    +2 more
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Atlassian logoAsked at Atlassian 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
    +7 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Given an nxn grid of 1s and 0s, return the number of islands in the input.'
    +11

    " 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) "

    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

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    Video answer for 'Find a triplet in an array with a given sum.'
    +11

    " import java.util.*; class Solution { // Time Complexity: O(n^2) // Space Complexity: O(n) public static List> threeSum(int[] nums) { // Ensure that the array is sorted first Arrays.sort(nums); // Create the results list to return List> results = new ArrayList(); // Iterate over the length of nums for (int i = 0; i < nums.length-2; i++) { // We will have the first number in"

    Victor O. - " import java.util.*; class Solution { // Time Complexity: O(n^2) // Space Complexity: O(n) public static List> threeSum(int[] nums) { // Ensure that the array is sorted first Arrays.sort(nums); // Create the results list to return List> results = new ArrayList(); // Iterate over the length of nums for (int i = 0; i < nums.length-2; i++) { // We will have the first number in"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +3 more
  • TikTok logoAsked at TikTok 

    "class Solution: def lengthOfLIS(self, nums: List[int]) -> int: temp = [nums[0]] for num in nums: if temp[-1]< num: temp.append(num) else: index = bisect_left(temp,num) temp[index] = num return len(temp) "

    Mahima M. - "class Solution: def lengthOfLIS(self, nums: List[int]) -> int: temp = [nums[0]] for num in nums: if temp[-1]< num: temp.append(num) else: index = bisect_left(temp,num) temp[index] = num return len(temp) "See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Coding
    +1 more
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 
    +41

    "#include // Naive method to find a pair in an array with a given sum void findPair(int nums[], int n, int target) { // consider each element except the last for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { // start from the i'th element until the last element for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { // if the desired sum is found, print it if (nums[i] + nums[j] == target) { printf("Pair found (%d, %d)\n", nums[i], nums[j]); return; } } } // we reach here if the pair is not found printf("Pair not found"); } "

    Gundala tarun,cse2020 V. - "#include // Naive method to find a pair in an array with a given sum void findPair(int nums[], int n, int target) { // consider each element except the last for (int i = 0; i < n - 1; i++) { // start from the i'th element until the last element for (int j = i + 1; j < n; j++) { // if the desired sum is found, print it if (nums[i] + nums[j] == target) { printf("Pair found (%d, %d)\n", nums[i], nums[j]); return; } } } // we reach here if the pair is not found printf("Pair not found"); } "See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +5 more
  • Airbnb logoAsked at Airbnb 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +4 more
  • Capital One logoAsked at Capital One 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    System Design
  • Machine Learning Engineer
    Product Design
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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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