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In the second half of the interview, I was asked to design a recommendation system for confluence, to recommend articles. NOTE: They say that they ask system design question according to the resume or our previous experience, but I havent worked on a recommendation system previously. So it might be a question based on the teams requirement. The interviewer mentioned that he has experience working on recommendation and it is his field of expertise.
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Senior Data Scientist, Machine learning

Interviewed at Atlassian

3.2
May 1, 2025

In the second half of the interview, I was asked to design a recommendation system for confluence, to recommend articles. NOTE: They say that they ask system design question according to the resume or our previous experience, but I havent worked on a recommendation system previously. So it might be a question based on the teams requirement. The interviewer mentioned that he has experience working on recommendation and it is his field of expertise.

- Diagram a solution for a multi-modal document prediction task. - Explain overfitting in the context of various algorithms (SVM, random forest, neural network) and techniques to mitigate it (very technical on the details) - Explain how you would deal with class imbalance or other sources of bias in a training data set (again, very technical on the details) - Explain how you would use a Docker container to make a deployable machine learning service using Kubernetes (wanted many devops details). - Have you used a pipeline automation tool like Luigi? Have you used monitoring tools like PagerDuty?
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at DigitalOcean

3.4
May 22, 2018

- Diagram a solution for a multi-modal document prediction task. - Explain overfitting in the context of various algorithms (SVM, random forest, neural network) and techniques to mitigate it (very technical on the details) - Explain how you would deal with class imbalance or other sources of bias in a training data set (again, very technical on the details) - Explain how you would use a Docker container to make a deployable machine learning service using Kubernetes (wanted many devops details). - Have you used a pipeline automation tool like Luigi? Have you used monitoring tools like PagerDuty?

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