Data Science Engineer Interview Questions

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1 coding question : Write a function for sampling from a multimodal distribution. Your inputs are: Keys (i.e. green, red, blue) Weights (i.e. 2, 3, 5.5) N (number of samples drawn from this distribution ( i.e. n=5) Output : list of n keys: Example n = 5: [blue, blue, blue, red, green] Hint: draw a rv of uniform distribution. Calculate the normalized weights for each key. - Machine Learning question : we have a list of items and how many times each item is purchased (range from 10 to 100000 times). For each user the probability of user buying each item is uniform (same across all users). Let’s say we have an item "A" that has been recommended 10 times, has been purchased 10 times. What is the long term probability of being purchased for this item ?
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Data Scientist

Interviewed at Stitch Fix

3.3
Jul 31, 2020

1 coding question : Write a function for sampling from a multimodal distribution. Your inputs are: Keys (i.e. green, red, blue) Weights (i.e. 2, 3, 5.5) N (number of samples drawn from this distribution ( i.e. n=5) Output : list of n keys: Example n = 5: [blue, blue, blue, red, green] Hint: draw a rv of uniform distribution. Calculate the normalized weights for each key. - Machine Learning question : we have a list of items and how many times each item is purchased (range from 10 to 100000 times). For each user the probability of user buying each item is uniform (same across all users). Let’s say we have an item "A" that has been recommended 10 times, has been purchased 10 times. What is the long term probability of being purchased for this item ?

Questions in the first phone screen were resume based, digging into your experience and qualifications. Questions in the debrief were technical pertaining to the data challenge where I was asked to explain the choices I had made in more detail and lay out the pros and cons. The on-site had behavioural questions and some product related questions.
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Data Science Intern

Interviewed at Turo

2.6
Aug 2, 2018

Questions in the first phone screen were resume based, digging into your experience and qualifications. Questions in the debrief were technical pertaining to the data challenge where I was asked to explain the choices I had made in more detail and lay out the pros and cons. The on-site had behavioural questions and some product related questions.

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