Uber Drivers Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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Design Cold Start for Recommendations

Hard

Design a recommendation system strategy for model cold start and new-user cold start, including serving, evaluation, and safe rollout.

Cold StartRetrievalTwo-Tower Models

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Top K Closest Drivers

Medium

Tests real-time spatial querying and efficient data structure design for ML-adjacent routing use cases.

Data StructuresHeapperformance analysis

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Hard DP or Array Optimization

Hard

Tests algorithmic depth and performance reasoning under strict constraints.

time complexityDynamic ProgrammingArray Manipulation

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GBDT Loss and Nonlinearity

Medium

Tests mastery of tree boosting objectives and comparison to neural network modeling.

loss functionsDeep LearningDecision Trees

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L1 vs L2 Regularization

Medium

Tests understanding of regularization math and its impact on model behavior and sparsity.

Feature EngineeringRegularizationmodel training

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Offline vs Online Metrics Trade-offs

Medium

Tests metric selection and ability to connect model performance to business outcomes.

Log LossEvaluation TechniquesAUC-ROC

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