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Lots of questions on machine learning techniques, use of regularization, differences between L1 and L2 regularization, why don't people use L0.5 regularization for instance. Use of deep learning, why Rectified Linear Unit is a good activation function etc.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Mar 5, 2016

Lots of questions on machine learning techniques, use of regularization, differences between L1 and L2 regularization, why don't people use L0.5 regularization for instance. Use of deep learning, why Rectified Linear Unit is a good activation function etc.

-Round 1: HM technical Review on what I have done so far. -Round 2: Coding : subarrays with length k from an array (easy leet code) ML Design questions: How to detect anomalies from some data? - Onsite Round 1: technical screen with 4 members of the team. Coding: find bboxes given an image (easy) Several ML design questions (some of them mutual between interviewers) with the same theme of detecting anomalies, flare, etc. Deep dive into my experience (every bit of it)
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Senior Research Scientist

Interviewed at Netflix

4.1
Feb 26, 2024

-Round 1: HM technical Review on what I have done so far. -Round 2: Coding : subarrays with length k from an array (easy leet code) ML Design questions: How to detect anomalies from some data? - Onsite Round 1: technical screen with 4 members of the team. Coding: find bboxes given an image (easy) Several ML design questions (some of them mutual between interviewers) with the same theme of detecting anomalies, flare, etc. Deep dive into my experience (every bit of it)

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