Deep technical project narrative and lessons learned Questions
Prepare detailed discussion of a significant project: the problem, your approach, technical decisions and trade-offs, challenges and how you overcame them, outcome, and what you learned. Practice explaining this clearly in 10-15 minutes, leaving time for questions.
HardBehavioral
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Prepare a 15-20 minute technical defense of a controversial design decision you made (for example: using proprietary third-party data, aggressive feature selection that risks leakage, or deploying a black-box model). Explain your rationale, the experiments and evidence you used to mitigate risk, stakeholder consultations, and how you monitored outcomes and set rollback criteria post-deployment.
EasyTechnical
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Tell me about a time you transformed a messy dataset into a reliable feature set for a deployed model. In a 10-minute narrative describe data cleaning steps, handling of missing values and outliers, feature selection/creation, tooling used (Python/pandas/SQL), and how you validated data quality before training and in production.
HardTechnical
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Explain in detail a project where fairness and bias were central concerns. Describe how you detected bias (metrics, subgroup analyses), mitigation strategies you tried (reweighting, adversarial debiasing, constrained optimization), the impact on model accuracy, how you chose fairness definitions, and how you operationalized ongoing fairness monitoring.
EasyTechnical
0 practiced
Provide a concise walkthrough (5-10 minutes) of a production incident involving a machine-learning pipeline you owned. Describe symptoms, troubleshooting steps, tools used (logs, metrics), root cause, immediate fix, communication to stakeholders, and steps you implemented to prevent recurrence.
MediumTechnical
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Pick a project where you built and validated a supervised learning model end-to-end. Prepare a 12-15 minute technical walkthrough covering dataset sampling, train/validation/test splits (and why), cross-validation strategy, evaluation metrics including business-metric mapping, hyperparameter search approach, and how you detected and handled overfitting.
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