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Explain the notions of overfitting and underfitting in machine learning, and discuss why they are crucial considerations in the building of models.
### Question Analysis The question is asking about fundamental concepts in machine learning: **overf...
Ally, Arm, Comcast, Deliveroo, Infineon, Marqeta, Outbrain, Rivian, Scribd, Soundcloud, thredUP, WeWork, ZocDoc
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
8234
What would you consider the primary challenges in training deep neural networks with many layers?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the challenges faced when training deep neural ne...
Babylon Health, Boeing, Cisco, Duolingo, Fitbit, Flexport, Nokia, Okta, Palantir Technologies, Taboola, Twilio
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
28302
What methods do you apply to assess the accuracy of computer vision algorithms?
### Question Analysis This question is asking about the techniques and methods you use to evaluate t...
Adyen, Agoda, Ancestry, BetterUp, Bitdefender, Blizzard, Dell, Digit, HelloFresh, Illumina, Instacart, LinkedIn, MathWorks, McAfee, Mimecast, Netflix, Rakuten, Redfin, Red Hat, Salesforce, Skyscanner, ThoughtWorks, Udacity, Zalando, Zalora, Zomato
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
75657
Could you outline the process of calculating the correlation between a binary variable and a continuous variable?
### Question Analysis This question tests the candidate's understanding of statistical methods used ...
BetterUp, Course Hero, DocuSign, Grab, MathWorks, Qualcomm, Redfin, Snowflake, Square, trivago, Zendesk
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
22555
How do you tackle the issue of high cardinality within categorical data fields?
### Question Analysis High cardinality in categorical data fields refers to the presence of a large ...
Atlassian, Blend, Cognizant, DocuSign, Infineon, Meetup, Redfin, Roku, thredUP, trivago, Ubisoft, Zillow
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
20501
In your opinion, how does Rectified Linear Unit perform as an activation function?
### Question Analysis This question assesses your understanding of the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) ...
Ally, Avito, Datadog, Faire, Groupon, Klarna, Motorola Solutions, Niantic, Okta, Paytm, Qualcomm, Rivian, Sony
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
18979
What constitutes the practice of outlier detection in the field of analytics?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the concept and practice of outlier detection wit...
Ancestry, Grammarly, HubSpot, Infineon, Mapbox, Splunk, Springboard, Ubisoft, Verizon, Yelp, Zillow
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
44456
How do you use cross-validation to evaluate the performance of a machine learning model?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the technique of cross-validation and how it is u...
Anaplan, Apple, Asana, Boeing, Dell, Meta, Nutanix, Optimizely, Red Hat, Spotify, Stitch Fix, Takeaway, Yandex, Zendesk, Zenefits
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
72837
What's the objective of employing regularization in machine learning practices?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the purpose and benefits of using regularization ...
Square, Airbnb, Okta, Cruise, BetterUp, Bumble, Quora, Etsy, Nokia, MathWorks, Pluralsight, Rakuten, Waymo
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
10114
Describe how a 1D CNN works.
### Question Analysis The question asks for an explanation of how a 1D Convolutional Neural Network ...
Amazon, Bosch, Centrica, Cleo, Etsy, Grafana Labs, Lyft, McAfee, Pendo, Quantcast, Quora, Reddit, Red Hat, Taboola
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
6747
Can you explain how you tackle data skew in model performance evaluations and the metrics that are useful in such situations?
### Question Analysis The question asks about handling data skew when evaluating the performance of ...
Ancestry, BetterUp, BuzzFeed, Citrix, Cleo, Cohesity, Coupang, Datadog, Glovo, Headspace, Indeed.com, Mayo Clinic, Mimecast, Okta, Optimizely, Palo Alto Networks, Rovio, ServiceNow, Siemens, Slack, SurveyMonkey, Taboola, Waymo, Zoox
Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
22776
Can you elucidate on the curse of dimensionality and provide a solution you'd employ against it?
### Question Analysis The question asks you to explain the concept of the "curse of dimensionality,"...
Airtable, EPAM Systems, Glovo, IBM, MathWorks, Motorola Solutions, PagerDuty, Peloton, Productboard, Snowflake, StubHub, Swiggy, thredUP, Wayfair, Zulily
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
4820
When confronted with a high-dimensional dataset in a machine learning problem, what would be your plan of action?
### Question Analysis The question asks for a strategy to handle high-dimensional datasets in machin...
AppDynamics, Audible, Comcast, Confluent, Curve, Mapbox, McAfee, Shopee, Shopify, Stitch Fix, Tesla, WeWork, Wish
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
16162
Can you explain how you tackle data skew in model performance evaluations and the metrics that are useful in such situations?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about your approach to handling data skew during model ...
Ancestry, BetterUp, BuzzFeed, Citrix, Cleo, Cohesity, Coupang, Datadog, Glovo, Headspace, Indeed.com, Mayo Clinic, Mimecast, Okta, Optimizely, Palo Alto Networks, Rovio, ServiceNow, Siemens, Slack, SurveyMonkey, Taboola, Waymo, Zoox
Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
7037
What do you know about cross-validation, and how might it be utilized in the field of machine learning?
### Question Analysis The question asks about cross-validation, a technique used in the field of mac...
Affirm, Autodesk, Booking.com, BuzzFeed, Disney, Dropbox, GoDaddy, IBM, Ola, Ripple, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey, Udacity
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
28064
What methods have you found useful for determining the most appropriate value of "k" for a given dataset using the K-means algorithm?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about techniques to determine the optimal value of "k" ...
Airbnb, Airtable, Canva, Chewy, Digit, DigitalOcean, Grab, Productboard, Quantcast, trivago, Wise
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
32917
Could you explain the concept behind Support Vector Machine?
### Question Analysis The question asks for an explanation of the concept behind Support Vector Mach...
Adobe, Elastic, Envoy, Epic Games, Etsy, Ironclad, Noom, PayPal, Pendo, Razorpay, Samsara, Sony, Wattpad
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
1693
What do you know about cross-validation, and how might it be utilized in the field of machine learning?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about **cross-validation**, a key concept in machine le...
Affirm, Autodesk, Booking.com, BuzzFeed, Disney, Dropbox, GoDaddy, IBM, Ola, Ripple, Salesforce, SurveyMonkey, Udacity
Data Scientist
Machine Learning
27017
Can you explain how the DBSCAN algorithm works?
### Question Analysis The question is asking you to explain the DBSCAN (Density-Based Spatial Cluste...
Agoda, Amadeus, Chegg, Criteo, Databricks, Datadog, Google, Grab, Panasonic, Venmo, Walmart, Workday
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
6380
What methods have you found useful for determining the most appropriate value of "k" for a given dataset using the K-means algorithm?
### Question Analysis The question is asking about the techniques used to determine the optimal numb...
Airbnb, Airtable, Canva, Chewy, Digit, DigitalOcean, Grab, Productboard, Quantcast, trivago, Wise
Machine Learning Engineer