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(Coding) Write an API & data structure for a specific use case (how would you test it, what's the complexity of the different operations...)? What's your experience with feature engineering? In hindsight, how would you do it differently and why? What's your experience interacting with product teams/managers?
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Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Interviewed at Affinity

4.2
Jul 20, 2023

(Coding) Write an API & data structure for a specific use case (how would you test it, what's the complexity of the different operations...)? What's your experience with feature engineering? In hindsight, how would you do it differently and why? What's your experience interacting with product teams/managers?

Hiring Manager Round : General Behavioural questions related to past experience, Expectations from the role. Tech/Coding Round : General Technical questions related to the role and basic coding Question. System Design Interview : I would rather not discuss about it as it was one of the worst system design interview I have been part of.
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Sr. Software Engineer II (Staff)

Interviewed at Planview

4.3
May 28, 2024

Hiring Manager Round : General Behavioural questions related to past experience, Expectations from the role. Tech/Coding Round : General Technical questions related to the role and basic coding Question. System Design Interview : I would rather not discuss about it as it was one of the worst system design interview I have been part of.

Round1: Hashmap internal workings, LRU Cache, LinkedList intersection problem from leet code. Java memory management, Exception handling. Round2: Edit distance dynamic programming question from leetcode, Given a large file with name, how will you read the file and remove duplicates - they expects optimised solution. Round3: Resume technology walk through discussion. Multi threading Questions. Efficient webcrawling HLD
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Demandbase

3.7
Jan 2, 2025

Round1: Hashmap internal workings, LRU Cache, LinkedList intersection problem from leet code. Java memory management, Exception handling. Round2: Edit distance dynamic programming question from leetcode, Given a large file with name, how will you read the file and remove duplicates - they expects optimised solution. Round3: Resume technology walk through discussion. Multi threading Questions. Efficient webcrawling HLD

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