Flipkart

Indian e-commerce giant tackling massive supply chain and scale problems.

4 Rounds ~18 Days Hard

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All Roles Machine Learning Engineer 8

All Topics System Design 51 Algorithms 44 Culture Fit 26 Machine Coding 18 Leadership 10 Product Design 9 JavaScript 9 Machine Learning 8

Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you handle severe class imbalance when training a model to predict Return to Origin (RTO) for Cash on Delivery (COD) orders?

#Class Imbalance #Loss Functions #Sampling Techniques

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Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • hard

Explain the architecture of a Two-Tower neural network. How do you perform negative sampling when training it for product retrieval?

#Deep Learning #Information Retrieval #Embeddings

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Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • medium

What is the difference between NDCG and MAP? Which metric would you use to evaluate Flipkart's search engine and why?

#Evaluation Metrics #Information Retrieval

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Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you handle Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) words in NLP models, especially for Indian regional languages or transliterated Hindi (Hinglish)?

#NLP #Tokenization #Text Processing

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Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • medium

Explain the self-attention mechanism in Transformers. How does it scale with sequence length?

#Deep Learning #Transformers #NLP

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Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • hard

What is model quantization? How would you optimize a large PyTorch model to reduce inference latency on CPU instances?

#Model Deployment #Optimization #Quantization

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Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • easy

Explain the bias-variance tradeoff. How do regularization techniques like L1 and L2 affect this tradeoff?

#Fundamentals #Regularization

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Machine Learning Engineer • Technical • medium

How do you evaluate the quality of embeddings generated for Flipkart's product catalog before deploying them to production?

#Embeddings #Evaluation #Unsupervised Learning

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