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What is the difference between left join and right join?
Easy
Jun 22,2024
SQL
Amazon
Amazon
Explain the difference between correlation and causation.
Easy
Aug 4, 2024
Statistical Analysis
Microsoft
Microsoft
What are the differences between Bag of Words and Word Vectors in NLP?
Medium
Nov 20, 2024
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
C3 AI
C3 AI
Explain the concept of a loss function and feature engineering.
Easy
Oct 15, 2024
Concept
Microsoft
Microsoft
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Easy
Dec 15, 2024
Behavioral Question
Microsoft
Microsoft
How would you approach analyzing a dataset with millions of rows?
Medium
Aug 3, 2024
Data Analysis Technique
Microsoft
Microsoft
Can you briefly describe your experience with managing projects?
Medium
Aug 2, 2024
Behavioral
Amazon
Amazon
How would you handle outliers in a dataset?
Medium
Aug 22, 2024
Statistical Analysis
Microsoft
Microsoft
Explain the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics, providing examples of each.
Medium
Nov 2, 2024
Data Analysis
Statistical Methods
Microsoft
Microsoft
Describe the concepts of Type I and Type II errors in hypothesis testing, along with their implications in decision-making.
Hard
Nov 2, 2024
Decision Theory
Statistics
Microsoft
Microsoft
Why do you want to work at OpenAI?
Easy
Oct,2024
Artificial Intelligence
Teamwork and Collaboration
OpenAI
OpenAI
What are SQL window functions and when to use RANGE BETWEEN?
Medium
Jan 12, 2025
Data Analysis
Database Management
Waymo
Waymo
The PM responsible for Facebook events has a new idea to drive engagement – when your friends mark that they’ll attend an event, you will get a notification. How would you measure the success of this notification? What counter-metrics would you look at?
Medium
Nov 19, 2024
Data Analysis
Product Metrics
Meta
Meta
Why do you want to work here?
Easy
May 24, 2024
Behavioral Questions
Microsoft
Microsoft
How would you handle situations where the chosen metrics may be influenced by external factors?
Medium
Jan 19, 2025
Data Analysis
Statistical Inference
Meta
Meta
How would you measure user engagement in an A/B test?
Hard
Jan 19, 2025
Data Analysis
Statistical Inference
Meta
Meta
How do you handle NULL values in SQL queries?
Medium
Oct 26, 2024
Database Management
SQL Programming
C3 AI
C3 AI
Can you explain the concept of effect size and its relevance in interpreting A/B test results?
Hard
Jan 19, 2025
A/B Testing
Statistical Analysis
Meta
Meta
What A/B testing pitfalls might you encounter?
Medium
Jan 8, 2025
Data Analysis
Statistical Inference
Meta
Meta
Explain the bias-variance tradeoff
Medium
Jan 12, 2025
Data Analysis
Machine Learning
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TikTok
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