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Interview Question Bank
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the Transformer architecture and specifically how multi-head self-attention works. Why is it preferred over RNNs for our Einstein LLM models?
#Deep Learning
#NLP
#Transformers
#LLMs
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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medium
In Sales Cloud, churn prediction datasets are highly imbalanced (e.g., 99% retain, 1% churn). How do you handle this class imbalance during modeling and evaluation?
#Data Imbalance
#Metrics
#Sampling
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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easy
Explain the difference between L1 and L2 regularization. In what scenario within a high-dimensional CRM dataset would you choose one over the other?
#Regularization
#Linear Models
#Feature Selection
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Compare XGBoost and Random Forest. How do they build trees differently, and how does that impact their bias-variance trade-off?
#Ensemble Methods
#Tree Models
#Bias-Variance
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the vanishing gradient problem. How do architectures like ResNets or LSTMs mitigate this issue?
#Deep Learning
#Neural Networks
#Optimization
Machine Learning Engineer
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Technical
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hard
We want to generate embeddings for Salesforce accounts to find 'similar accounts'. How would you use contrastive learning to train this embedding model?
#Representation Learning
#Contrastive Learning
#Embeddings
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