Analytical Background Questions
The candidate's analytical skills and experience with data driven problem solving, including statistics, data analysis projects, tools and languages used, and examples of insights that influenced product or business decisions. This covers academic projects, internships, or professional analytics work and the end to end approach from hypothesis to measured result.
EasyTechnical
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Explain what the Pearson correlation coefficient measures and why a strong correlation between two variables does not imply a causal relationship. Provide a product analytics example where correlation could be misleading and what analysis you would run to investigate causality.
EasyTechnical
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You ran an A/B test where Control had 120 conversions out of 2000 users and Variant had 150 conversions out of 2000 users. As an ML Engineer, which statistical test would you choose to determine significance, what assumptions does it make, and how would you interpret the result? Outline the steps to compute a p-value and a confidence interval for the difference in proportions.
HardSystem Design
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Design a metric system and bucketing strategy for A/B tests on a search ranking system where users perform multiple queries per session and position bias is strong. Requirements: avoid interference between variants, measure per-query satisfaction, and control for user-level correlation. Propose metrics, bucketing choices (query-level vs user-level), and analysis approach.
MediumTechnical
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Describe methods to detect data drift in production for numeric and categorical features. Include statistical tests (KS test, Cramer V), windowing strategies, thresholds, and how you would prioritize which feature drifts to investigate based on model impact.
HardTechnical
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Coding/performance: Implement a permutation test in Python that computes the p-value for the difference in means between two large numeric samples without creating giant temporary arrays. Explain optimizations to reduce memory and CPU when sample sizes are on the order of 1 million each.
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