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ByteDance Data Scientist Interview Questions

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 8 questions · ~75 min
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Product Sense9 questions · ~84 min
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System Design4 questions · ~37 min
System Design and API Design (General)Hard

Discuss how to design, serve, evaluate, and monitor an end-to-end ML system.

ML Rankingsystem designCodingByteDance
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Machine Learning8 questions · ~75 min
Count Valid Binary SubstringsMedium

Use prefix-balance frequency counting to compute the number of binary substrings with equal numbers of zeros and ones.

data preprocessingCodingModel EvaluationByteDance
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Metrics4 questions · ~37 min
Walk Through Your ResumeMedium

Explain data problems solved, metric choices, analytical methods, and how findings influenced decisions.

KPI developmentProblem Solvingmetric selectionByteDance
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Statistics & Probability6 questions · ~56 min
Predicting New Product SalesHard

Design a sales forecast for a new ByteDance product using analogs, time-series modeling, Bayesian updating, and prediction intervals.

scenario analysisBayesian ReasoningRegressionByteDance
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More topics11 questions · ~103 min
Mitigating Experimentation PitfallsHard

Identify major online experimentation pitfalls and explain practical mitigations for SRM, network effects, peeking, and novelty.

experiment designNetwork InterferenceNetwork EffectsByteDance
Evaluate Overfitting vs UnderfittingMedium

Explain how to tell whether a model is overfitting or underfitting using train versus validation performance and related checks.

Cross-ValidationBias-Variance TradeoffAccuracyByteDance
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