Anthropic
AI safety and research company behind Claude, focusing on constitutional AI.
5 Rounds
~20 Days
Very Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python script using multiprocessing to efficiently tokenize and shard a massive JSONL dataset into binary memmap files.
#Multiprocessing
#I/O
#Tokenization
Machine Learning Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a data pipeline to process and filter petabytes of web-scraped text for pre-training a foundational LLM. How do you handle exact and fuzzy deduplication at this scale?
#Data Pipeline
#Deduplication
#MinHash
#Big Data
Machine Learning Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a data deduplication pipeline for a 5-trillion token pretraining dataset.
#Big Data
#MinHash
#LSH
#Distributed Processing
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