Data Science Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

In a given day, how many birthday posts occur on Facebook?

Facebook,

224

Write the code to reverse a Linked list.

WalMart,

241

How will you overcome overfitting in predictive models?

206

Implement a sorting algorithm for a numerical dataset in Python.

Facebook,

214

Will Uber cause city congestion?

Uber,

281

How will you decide which version (Version 1 or Version 2) of the Surge Pricing Algorithms is working better for Uber ?

Uber,

216

What is the good measure of influence of a Twitter user?

Twitter,

176

A building has 100 floors. Given 2 identical eggs, how can you use them to find the threshold floor? The egg will break from any particular floor above floor N, including floor N itself.

Facebook,

285

What assumptions does linear regression machine learning algorithm make?

WalMart,

199

You have 2 dices. What is the probability of getting at least one 4? Also find out the probability of getting at least one 4 if you have n dices.

Facebook,

340

How will you design a recommendation engine for jobs?

LinkedIn,

211

How will you test a machine learning model for accuracy?

168

If we added one rider to the current SF market, how would that affect the existing riders and drivers?

Uber,

227

What would you add to Facebook and how would you pitch it and measure its success?

Facebook,

245

How will you test that there is increased probability of a user to stay active after 6 months given that a user has more friends now?

Facebook,

377


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Science }

Estimate the number of square feet pizza's eaten in US each year.

194


Do gradient descent methods always converge to same point?

205


Give some situations where you will use an SVM over a RandomForest Machine Learning algorithm and vice-versa?

319


Can you explain root cause analysis?

148


You are at a Casino. You have two dices to play with. You win $10 every time you roll a 5. If you play till you win and then stop, what is the expected pay-out?

212


What is the job of a data scientist?

167


What does a data scientist do?

217


Can you write the formula to calculate r-square?

184


What is advantage of using apply family of functions in r?

192


What is the law of large numbers?

186


How is data science different from data analytics?

187


What are interpolation and extrapolation?

185


What is linear optimization?

171


What is overfitting?

208


What does _init_.py do?

215