Databricks
Unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark for data engineering and ML.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Hard
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Interview Question Bank
Data Scientist
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Technical
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hard
You are training a distributed XGBoost model on a massive dataset using Spark. The training job is taking too long and some executors are idling. How do you identify the bottleneck and optimize the training process?
#Distributed ML
#XGBoost
#Spark
#Performance Tuning
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How would you implement a distributed K-Means clustering algorithm from scratch using Spark RDDs or a MapReduce paradigm?
#Distributed Computing
#Apache Spark
#Clustering
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Explain the differences between Data Parallelism, Tensor Parallelism, and Pipeline Parallelism. In what scenarios would you choose one over the others when training a 70B parameter model?
#Deep Learning
#Distributed Training
#LLMs
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What are the primary bottlenecks when using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) in a distributed cluster? How do algorithms like Ring-AllReduce mitigate these bottlenecks?
#Optimization Algorithms
#Networking
#Distributed Systems
Product Manager
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System Design
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medium
Design a real-time model monitoring dashboard for MLflow that alerts users when data drift or concept drift occurs in their production endpoints.
#MLOps
#MLflow
#Model Drift
#Monitoring
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