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CodingStart here. 3 questions · ~27 min
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System Design6 questions · ~55 min
Design an LLM Serving PlatformHard

Design an LLM serving system that balances latency, cost, scalability, and safety for production traffic.

Cold StartFeature StoreModel ServingGGraphcore
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Machine Learning16 questions · ~146 min
Bias Variance Tradeoff BasicsEasy

Explain how bias and variance affect generalization, and how model complexity changes the balance.

Cross-ValidationBias-Variance TradeoffSupervised LearningGGraphcore
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Execution11 questions · ~100 min
Prioritize Testing Under Tight DeadlinesMedium

Explain how you would prioritize QA work under a fixed deadline when full regression coverage is not possible.

Trade-offsRoadmappingScope ManagementGGraphcore
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Generative AI & LLMs5 questions · ~46 min
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~36 min
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More topics5 questions · ~46 min
Evaluate Models in ProductionHard

How to evaluate a production model using calibration, thresholds, and confusion matrix tradeoffs.

CalibrationAccuracyThreshold TuningGGraphcore
Null Space Vector IdentificationHard

Determine which candidate vector satisfies the null-space condition for a given matrix using matrix-vector multiplication.

linear algebramathematical reasoningpattern recognitionGGraphcore
Deep Learning Pipeline BottleneckHard

Diagnose and remove a bottleneck in a Graphcore IPU training data pipeline while preserving correctness and accelerator utilization.

data pipelineDeep Learningdata latencyGGraphcore
Quality of EmbeddingsMedium

Evaluates your approach to validating and improving embedding quality for retrieval performance.

Vector SearchGGraphcore
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