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  1. 1Longest Increasing SubsequenceMediumCodingAI ML· Atlassian, Meta
  2. 2What's the effect of adjusting an LLM's context window size?MediumAI MLTechnical· OpenAI
  3. 3How would you build an object detection system to identify and locate flowers in images?HardAI ML· Apple
  4. 4You have a dataset comprising 1,000 avatar images and 100,000 user descriptions with associated avatar images. Create a model that recommends an image from a new set of 100,000 images for a user description.HardAI ML· SAP
  5. 5Define hallucinations in LLMs.MediumAI MLTechnical· Anthropic, Mastercard
  6. 6Design an evaluation framework for ads ranking.MediumAI MLProduct· Meta
  7. 7Design a fake news detection system.HardAI MLProduct· Meta
  8. 8Design an ML experiment tracking and analysis platform.HardAI MLSystem design· Google
  9. 9Design a personalized news ranking system.HardAI MLSystem design· Meta
  10. 10Design a product recommendation system.HardAI MLSystem design· Meta, Pinterest
  11. 11What metrics would you track to evaluate the performance of your ML pipeline?MediumAI MLSystem design· PAPerplexity AI
  12. 12How is gradient descent and model optimization used in linear regression?MediumTechnicalAI ML· OpenAI
  13. 13How would you handle hallucinations in a generative AI model deployed to users?MediumAI MLTechnical· Anthropic, OpenAI
  14. 14Implement a k-nearest neighbors algorithm.EasyCodingAI ML· Amazon, Pinterest
  15. 15Design an inference batching system for a single GPU that can handle up to 100 inputs per batch while users wait synchronously, maximizing utilization under compute constraints.HardAI MLSystem design· Anthropic
  16. 16You received user feedback that Yelp's restaurant recommendation is not personal enough. What would you do?MediumAI MLProduct· Google
  17. 17How do you stay up to date with advancements in machine learning?MediumBehavioralAI ML· Anthropic, Capital One
  18. 18What are the different types of machine learning?MediumTechnicalAI ML· Google
  19. 19What is overfitting or underfitting? Which models are most likely to experience this, and why?MediumTechnicalAI ML· Nvidia, OpenAI
  20. 20What are common linear regression problems?MediumDataTechnical· Amazon
  21. 21Why is a deep neural network better than a shallow neural network?MediumTechnicalAI ML· Google, Nvidia
  22. 22Design an app where customer listening history is collected after they have listened to a song for more than 30 seconds for analytics use.MediumAI MLSystem design· Amazon
  23. 23Design a system that recommends the next Confluence pages a user should view.HardAI MLSystem design· Atlassian, PayPal
  24. 24Design a system that filters waste by detecting paper and putting it in the correct bin.MediumAI MLSystem design· Samsung