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Coupang
Amazon
eBay

Coupang ML System Design: Scalable E-commerce Search

Design a scalable e-commerce search system (semantic & vector search) for Coupang. Learn low-latency retrieval, ranking, filtering, and scaling choices.

Machine Learning Engineer, Search EngineerMid Level
ml foundation
Databricks
Google
Meta

Databricks ML Interview: Neural Networks & Transformers

Prepare for the Databricks ML interview: review Transformer components, self-attention, and Word2Vec (Skip-gram/CBOW). Read sample follow-ups and prep tips.

Machine Learning Engineer, ML ResearcherEntry Level
ml system design
Databricks
Meta
Twitter

Databricks: Real-Time Harmful Content Detection (ML)

Databricks ML design: build a real-time harmful content detection system. Study architecture, latency trade-offs, monitoring, retraining and interview follow-ups.

Machine Learning Engineer, ML Systems EngineerMid Level
ml coding
OpenAI
Anthropic
Google

Debug and Extend GPT-style Transformer — OpenAI ML Engineer

Fix 4 intentional bugs in a PyTorch GPT-style transformer, add KV-cache and a token classifier, and reproduce reference training outputs. Learn verification steps.

Machine Learning Engineer, ML EngineerMid Level
coding
DoorDash
Uber
Amazon

DoorDash Coding Question: Closest BST Node to Target

Find the integer node in a BST closest to a float target. Includes iterative and recursive solutions, complexity, edge cases and interview tips. Practice now.

Machine Learning Engineer, Software EngineerEntry Level
ml system design
eBay
Amazon
Etsy

eBay ML System Design: Post-Checkout Recommendations

Design a low-latency post-checkout recommendation system for eBay: retrieval, ranking, features, training, and metrics. Prepare for ML interviews with examples.

Machine Learning Engineer, Data ScientistMid Level
coding
Google
Microsoft
Meta

Google Coding Question: Online Longest Subarray with Average

Track longest contiguous subarray with average S online. Use prefix-sum key = pref - S*i with a hashmap. Read precision tips and complexity notes.

Machine Learning Engineer, Software EngineerEntry Level
coding
Google
Microsoft
Amazon

Google Coding Question: Task Scheduling with Precedence

Minimal makespan for DAG tasks with durations and precedence constraints on unlimited or M CPUs. Includes algorithms, complexity notes, and follow-ups.

Machine Learning Engineer, Software EngineerMid Level
ml coding
Google
DeepMind
OpenAI

Google ML Coding: Hand-code Multi-Head Attention in NumPy

Implement multi-head attention in NumPy: scaled dot-product for batched Q,K,V. Do per-head projections, reshape, apply mask, and return attention weights.

Machine Learning Engineer, ML EngineerEntry Level
ml system design
Google
YouTube
TikTok

Google ML System Design: Fuzzy Video Deduplication

Design a real-time fuzzy video deduplication system using embedding models and ANN search. Learn tradeoffs, scalability, and appeal workflows—prepare for interviews.

Machine Learning Engineer, ML EngineerMid Level
ml coding
Uber
Lyft
Airbnb

Implement k-Fold Cross-Validation From Scratch — Uber

Implement k-fold, stratified, and time-series CV from scratch for ML evaluation. Includes split contracts, reproducibility, and aggregate metric. Read on to prepare.

Machine Learning Engineer, Data ScientistMid Level
ml coding
LinkedIn
Google
Amazon

LinkedIn ML: Large-Scale Streaming Mean & Variance

Compute population mean and variance in one pass over massive float streams. Includes mergeable, numerically stable summaries for distributed ML systems — try it.

Machine Learning Engineer, Data ScientistMid Level

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