These are the 7 area you need to prepare in for DS/ML interviews.
Each company uses a
different combination of these areas.
Coding
Complete the LeetCode Blind 75
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Need solutions to the questions? Check out NeetCode
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Prob/Stats
1. Understand fundamentals through Emma Ding playlist
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2. Complete Udacity's Free Course on A/B Testing - it covers metrics and calculations -
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SQL
If you are absolutely new to SQL, start with
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If you know your way around SQL, check out DataLemur SQL Interview Questions
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Machine Learning
Understand the basics which includes -
⭐ Feature Engineering and Selection
Understanding missing value imputations, normalization/scaling and few feature selection
techniques.
⭐ Bias & Variance - Overfitting/Underfitting
Understand how to decide between model based on theory
Know different regularization methods and impact of each.
⭐ Loss functions
Yes, you need to know the formulae of MSE, MAE, Log-Loss etc.
⭐ Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Tree models, k-Means
What are the model assumptions and how do you decide when to apply what.
The best learning resource, IMO - https://www.statlearning.com/
Deep Learning
Understand the basics such as optimizers, loss function, and basic architectures (MLP, CNN,
RNN).
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Case Studies
A case study round can be quite broad, e.g. “Assume you are Data Scientist at Etsy. You
want to increase the add to card rate. How would you go about it?”
The best way to approach such question is to have a framework -
1. Ask questions to narrow down the problem area
2. Suggest and use feedback to decide business metrics relevant to problem
3. Decide the best ML formulation (classification/forecasting/recommendation)
4. Decide on model metrics that can tie to business metrics.
5. Suggest which models you would experiment with
6. Explain how you would productionalize.
6. Explain how you would A/B test the final model
For practice check out this video
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And this playlist
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Behavioural
Understand how to research and tell stories
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Get some practice with one of the tougher culture fit critics - Amazon
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