Technical Skills and Tools Questions

A concise but comprehensive presentation of a candidate's core technical competencies, tool familiarity, and practical proficiency. Topics to cover include programming languages and skill levels, frameworks and libraries, development tools and debuggers, relational and non relational databases, cloud platforms, containerization and orchestration, continuous integration and continuous deployment practices, business intelligence and analytics tools, data analysis libraries and machine learning toolkits, embedded systems and microcontroller experience, and any domain specific tooling. Candidates should communicate both breadth and depth: identify primary strengths, describe representative tasks they can perform independently, and call out areas of emerging competence. Provide brief concrete examples of projects or analyses where specific tools and technologies were applied and quantify outcomes or impact when possible, while avoiding long project storytelling. Prepare a two to three minute verbal summary that links skills and tools to concrete outcomes, and be ready for follow up probes about technical decisions, trade offs, and how tools were used to deliver results.

HardSystem Design

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You must architect a scalable feature engineering and model training environment for a team of 20 data scientists that supports experimentation, reproducibility, and low cost. Describe compute provisioning, shared data storage, access controls, development workflows, and tooling for scheduling and cost management.

EasyTechnical

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Explain how you approach data storage decisions: when to use a relational database vs a columnar store vs a NoSQL solution. Give a short example of a system you designed and the storage choice with reasons (query patterns, latency, scalability, cost).

HardTechnical

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Describe your experience with hardware-specific inference optimizations (e.g., NVIDIA TensorRT, Intel OpenVINO). Provide a concise example where such optimization reduced latency or cost, including measured outcomes and any compatibility challenges you encountered.

MediumTechnical

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A model training job on a cloud GPU cluster intermittently fails due to OOM (out-of-memory). Describe your troubleshooting steps and list 5 concrete configuration changes or code-level optimizations you would try to resolve the issue while minimizing retraining time and cost.

HardTechnical

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A deployed model begins to show prediction drift. Describe the monitoring and alerting stack (tools and metrics) you'd set up to detect drift, diagnose root cause (data vs model), and automate remediation steps including retraining. Include example thresholds and remediation policies.

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