Machine Learning Scientist Interview Questions

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General C++ questions: exceptions in constructors / stack unwinding, step-by-step creation of objects (order of constructors & members initialization), virtual inheritance. Specific question - can you use 'auto_ptr' in vectors?

General C++ questions: exceptions in constructors / stack unwinding, step-by-step creation of objects (order of constructors & members initialization), virtual inheritance. Specific question - can you use 'auto_ptr' in vectors?

Why do you fit this role How do you view yourself in 2 years What is your salary expectation What is your biggest achievement in your research Why industry instead of academy Do you have working permit to work in England Given an image with tissue and fibre, answer some questions Have you read our paper What do you know about our company
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Machine Learning Scientist

Interviewed at Ground Truth Labs

Sep 13, 2024

Why do you fit this role How do you view yourself in 2 years What is your salary expectation What is your biggest achievement in your research Why industry instead of academy Do you have working permit to work in England Given an image with tissue and fibre, answer some questions Have you read our paper What do you know about our company

Each interview was with a totally different person and pretty distinct. It helps to be familiar with data science and engineering and academic research. Was asked to design a database as well as some numerical code in ds interview.
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Machine Learning Scientist

Interviewed at Capital One

3.4
Mar 6, 2021

Each interview was with a totally different person and pretty distinct. It helps to be familiar with data science and engineering and academic research. Was asked to design a database as well as some numerical code in ds interview.

In the second half of the interview, I was asked to design a recommendation system for confluence, to recommend articles. NOTE: They say that they ask system design question according to the resume or our previous experience, but I havent worked on a recommendation system previously. So it might be a question based on the teams requirement. The interviewer mentioned that he has experience working on recommendation and it is his field of expertise.
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Senior Data Scientist, Machine learning

Interviewed at Atlassian

3.1
May 1, 2025

In the second half of the interview, I was asked to design a recommendation system for confluence, to recommend articles. NOTE: They say that they ask system design question according to the resume or our previous experience, but I havent worked on a recommendation system previously. So it might be a question based on the teams requirement. The interviewer mentioned that he has experience working on recommendation and it is his field of expertise.

1. introduction 2. pick 2 projects to explain 3. why need to normalize input 4. batch norm 5. how pooling do the back prop 6. how to calculate auc, roc curve 7. auc and acc 8. flops calculation 9. quick sort (bug free)
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Machine Learning Scientist

Interviewed at TikTok

3.2
Feb 28, 2022

1. introduction 2. pick 2 projects to explain 3. why need to normalize input 4. batch norm 5. how pooling do the back prop 6. how to calculate auc, roc curve 7. auc and acc 8. flops calculation 9. quick sort (bug free)

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