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Approach a Backlog Project

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Problem

Given a situation taken from the team's own backlog project, how would you approach it and what tech stack would you use?

Asked in the Round 3 (technical discussion) stage. The interviewer deliberately followed this with the wrong claim that one programming language is the solution for most projects, to see whether you would push back. Explain how you would clarify the problem, design the ML system, and choose technologies based on requirements rather than language preference.

Address:

  1. Requirements and scale questions
  2. Offline and online architecture
  3. Model and serving choices
  4. Evaluation and monitoring
  5. Failure modes, drift, and training-serving skew