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Google Applied Scientist Interview Questions

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CodingStart here. 6 questions · ~68 min
Priority Queue Data Structure TaskHard
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Traverse nested folders and return the k largest files in descending size order using a priority queue.

coding challengeData StructuresAlgorithmsGoogle
Longest Palindromic Substring (LeetCode 5)Medium
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Find the longest palindromic substring using center expansion in quadratic time.

CodingArraysAlgorithmsGoogle
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System Design7 questions · ~80 min
Diagnose and Improve a Flawed ModelHard

Diagnose a flawed ML model, improve its pipeline, and compare alternative methods using offline and online evidence.

feedback loopFeature Driftml inferenceGoogle
Design a Stock Price Prediction SystemHard

Design an end-to-end ML system for stock price prediction, including feature engineering and regression evaluation.

Feature Driftml inferencedata collectionGoogle
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Machine Learning4 questions · ~45 min
Extreme Imbalance in Binary ClassificationMedium

Handle severe class imbalance in a binary deep learning model using sampling, weighted losses, and the right evaluation metrics.

Hyperparameter TuningDeep LearningClass ImbalanceGoogle
Vanishing Gradients in Deep NetworksMedium
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Explain vanishing gradients in deep networks and how residual connections, batch normalization, and activation choice improve training.

Neural NetworksDeep LearningGradient DescentGoogle
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Statistics & Probability9 questions · ~102 min
Central Limit Theorem LimitsMedium
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Explain the Central Limit Theorem, its assumptions, and when normal approximations break down in practice.

DistributionsCentral Limit TheoremExpected ValueGoogle
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More topics1 question · ~11 min
Explain Transformer Self-AttentionHard

Explain how transformer self-attention works, including its role in sequence modeling and why it scales better than RNNs.

Neural NetworksLanguage ModelsDeep LearningGoogle
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