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  1. 49What are the different types of software testing?MediumCodingTechnical· Salesforce
  2. 50How would you use VR to improve education?MediumTechnicalProduct· Microsoft
  3. 51What are virtual functions?MediumCodingTechnical· Nvidia
  4. 52What is idempotent in an API?MediumTechnical· Google
  5. 53Which sorting algorithms use divide and conquer?MediumCodingTechnical· Meta
  6. 54How would you handle an exploding gradient, given a neural network?MediumTechnicalAI ML
  7. 55Tell me about an app you use frequently, and describe your go-to-market strategy for a new feature it just launched.MediumTechnical
  8. 56What are the issues that using hashmap on a multithreaded environment may cause? How would you deal with them?MediumCodingTechnical
  9. 57Explain how hash maps work.MediumCodingTechnical
  10. 58Explain the memory changes that occur when executing: Object o = new Object().MediumTechnical
  11. 59Is the Mean Squared Error (MSE) a suitable cost function for a logistic regression model?MediumTechnicalAI ML
  12. 60Describe how random forests work and explain what an ensemble method is.MediumTechnicalAI ML
  13. 61Explain the differences between multithreading and multiprocessing.MediumTechnical
  14. 62Which is more likely to result in overfitting a model? More training data, decreased nodes in neural network hidden layers, eliminating sparse features, or using a Gaussian or RBF kernel in SVM?MediumTechnicalAI ML
  15. 63In K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), does setting k=1 lead to higher variance or higher bias?MediumTechnicalAI ML
  16. 64What is the significance of an area under the curve (AUC) equal to 0.5?MediumTechnicalAI ML
  17. 65Describe how the split in a decision tree works.MediumTechnicalAI ML
  18. 66SQL Stored ProceduresMediumCodingTechnical
  19. 67Explain the time complexity differences between ArrayList and LinkedList.MediumCodingTechnical