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New York Life Data Scientist Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a New York Life Data Scientist interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 4 questions + 2 drills · ~54 min
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Metrics3 questions · ~25 min
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Machine Learning11 questions · ~93 min
Handle Highly Imbalanced ClassesMedium

Build a classifier for a highly imbalanced dataset and choose training and evaluation methods that surface rare positives.

Cross-ValidationFeature EngineeringSupervised LearningNew York Life
Prevent Overfitting in ML ModelsEasy

Explain how to reduce overfitting using regularization, validation, and model selection.

Cross-ValidationBias-Variance TradeoffRegularizationNew York Life
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Statistics & Probability4 questions · ~34 min
Explaining P Values ClearlyEasy

Explain what a p-value means, how it relates to statistical significance, and how to describe it clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

CommunicationStatistical SignificanceP-ValuesNew York Life
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Behavioral & Leadership11 questions · ~93 min
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More topics4 questions · ~34 min
Pitfalls in Streaming Experiment AnalysisHard

Identify major online experiment pitfalls and explain how they can bias results in a streaming product A/B test.

Network InterferenceNovelty EffectSample Ratio MismatchNew York Life
Explain Precision and RecallMedium

Explain what precision and recall mean in classification, and how to interpret the tradeoff between them.

PrecisionAUC-ROCRecallNew York Life
Define Metrics for a Customer TestHard

Define the primary metric, guardrails, and power for a customer-facing A/B test before deciding whether to ship.

ExperimentationGuardrail MetricsA/B TestingNew York Life
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