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CodingStart here. 5 questions · ~56 min
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SQL & Data Manipulation5 questions · ~56 min
First and Last User EventsMedium
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Use CTEs, LEFT JOINs, and ROW_NUMBER to return each active user's first and last event with deterministic tie-breaking.

Window FunctionsDate FunctionsRankingMicrosoft
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Machine Learning5 questions · ~56 min
Improve Loan Default Prediction FeaturesEasy

Build and compare baseline and engineered-feature classifiers for consumer loan default prediction, and explain how feature engineering changes model performance.

Cross-ValidationFeature EngineeringSupervised LearningMicrosoft
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Execution5 questions · ~56 min
Discuss a Meaningful FailureEasy
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Reflect on a real execution failure, what caused it, how you responded, and what you changed afterward.

Trade-offsSuccess CriteriaRisk AssessmentMicrosoft
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Pipelines4 questions · ~45 min
Data Quality in ML PipelinesMedium
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Approach for maintaining high quality data across ML pipelines, from ingestion through feature generation and model consumption.

Data QualityInfrastructureData WranglingMicrosoft
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Model Evaluation5 questions · ~56 min
Evaluate F1 Score Significance in Model PerformanceMedium

Analyze the significance of the F1 score in a binary classification model for customer churn prediction, and propose improvements.

F1 ScoreAccuracyMicrosoft
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More topics21 questions · ~234 min
Define Success Metrics for FeaturesMedium
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Set a clear north star, supporting KPIs, leading indicators, and guardrails for a new product feature.

North Star MetricLagging IndicatorsKPIsMicrosoft
Explain Transformer Architecture and Attention MechanismsHard

Discuss the architecture of Transformers, focusing on self-attention and its impact on NLP tasks.

Neural NetworksLanguage ModelsDeep LearningMicrosoft
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