Fullstack DataScientist interview questions
Jul 6, 2021
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Hi all,
I'll be appearing for Fullstack data scientist position interviews for the first time. What should I expect in the interview questions? I know, DataStructures (DS) & Algo will be common, for Data science-specific rounds will they ask me to code ML models? Will there be any preference given for Python or R?
Please suggest
Thanks!
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Depends on the company and what you’ll be really doing as “full stack”: it’s DS&Algo, ML 101, maybe MLOps questions, SQL questions, ML System Design (e.g. how would you design youtube recommender system? ; take-home or verbal walkthrough), experience/project walkthrough, behavioural+typical stuff
From a friend who recently interviewed for ML Eng roles:
And companies seemed to either go:
FAANG Style ➡️ ML Tablestakes + Leetcode Technical + ML System Design + Experience Walkthrough
Non-FAANG #1 ➡️ ML Tablestakes + ML System Design (Verbal/ Take Home Case/Both) + Experience Walkthrough + Behavioral Panel
Non-FAANG #2 ➡️ ML System Design (Verbal) + Experience Walkthrough + Behavioral Panel
*Note: I’m planning on interviewing for ML Eng roles in NYC soon if anybody has a hookup or willing to help me prep for interviews. I can build ML/DL models, deploy them on AWS/Azure/GCP, I’m quite up to date on full-stack ML and recently got a lot of love for an NLP project I recently completed. I’m wrapping up some projects/courses in the next ~3 months and then will start applying.