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Interview Question Bank
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Implement an LRU Cache. This is often used in our ML serving layer to cache frequent feature lookups for real-time inference.
#Data Structures
#Hash Map
#Linked List
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given an array of intervals representing sales call durations logged in Salesforce, merge all overlapping intervals.
#Arrays
#Sorting
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a string of text from a customer support case and a dictionary of words, determine if the string can be segmented into a space-separated sequence of dictionary words.
#Dynamic Programming
#String Matching
#NLP
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Find the Top K Frequent Elements in an array of product IDs. This is a primitive for building basic recommendation fallbacks in Commerce Cloud.
#Heap
#Hash Map
#Bucket Sort
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Given a sorted dictionary of an alien language, find the order of characters. We sometimes deal with complex dependency graphs in our data pipelines.
#Graph
#Topological Sort
#BFS
#DFS
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Find the minimum window substring in a large text document that contains all characters of a target string. Useful for keyword proximity search in Einstein Search.
#Sliding Window
#Hash Map
#Strings
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given an array of integers and an integer K, find the total number of continuous subarrays whose sum equals K. Imagine analyzing time-series telemetry data for sudden spikes.
#Prefix Sum
#Hash Map
Machine Learning Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Find the Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree. This relates to finding common management chains in our CRM hierarchy data.
#Trees
#DFS
#Recursion
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