FAQ on Machine Learning

A lot of machine learning interview questions of this type will involve the implementation of machine learning models to a company’s problems. You’ll have to research the company and its industry in-depth, especially the revenue drivers the company has, and the types of users the company takes on in the context of the industry it’s … Read more

This question or questions like it really try to test you on two dimensions. The first is your knowledge of the business and the industry itself, as well as your understanding of the business model. The second is whether you can pick how correlated data is to business outcomes in general, and then how you … Read more

Data pipelines are the bread and butter of machine learning engineers, who take data science models and find ways to automate and scale them. Make sure you’re familiar with the tools to build data pipelines (such as Apache Airflow) and the platforms where you can host models and pipelines (such as Google Cloud or AWS … Read more

This tests your knowledge of JSON, another popular file format that wraps with JavaScript. There are six basic JSON datatypes you can manipulate: strings, numbers, objects, arrays, booleans, and null values. In a machine learning interview, the correct answer to the question “What are the data types supported by JSON?” would typically include the following: … Read more

In practice, XML is much more verbose than CSVs are and takes up a lot more space. CSVs use some separators to categorize and organize data into neat columns. XML uses tags to delineate a tree-like structure for key-value pairs. You’ll often get XML back as a way to semi-structure data from APIs or HTTP … Read more