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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.

EasyBehavioral
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Prepare and present a 10-15 minute narrative of a technically challenging machine learning project you led or played a major role in. In your narrative cover: the business problem, target success metrics, end-to-end approach (data, features, model, infra), key technical decisions and trade-offs, major obstacles and how you solved them, final outcome (quantified where possible), and two concrete lessons learned.
HardSystem Design
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The product needs to run your model on edge devices with strict memory and power constraints. Explain a full migration plan: model pruning and quantization, knowledge distillation, lightweight feature extraction, update and rollback mechanisms on device, and validation strategies when telemetry is limited.
EasyBehavioral
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Tell me about a time during that project when initial model results were disappointing. Describe the troubleshooting steps you took: what logs, metrics, or unit tests you inspected; experiments you ran; and the final fix or mitigation implemented.
MediumSystem Design
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Present a 10-15 minute project narrative tailored to a technical hiring panel focusing on architecture and scalability. Emphasize data pipeline design, model serving architecture, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, capacity estimates (e.g., QPS, dataset size), and how you load-tested or validated scalability assumptions.
HardSystem Design
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Walk through how you would transition the project from single-team ownership to a shared platform team model supporting multiple product teams. Cover API design, SLAs, onboarding docs and runbooks, observability and alerting standards, cost allocation, and organizational processes for feature requests and incident ownership.

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