Data Science Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

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

Facebook,

240

Write the code to reverse a Linked list.

WalMart,

245

How will you overcome overfitting in predictive models?

218

Implement a sorting algorithm for a numerical dataset in Python.

Facebook,

223

Will Uber cause city congestion?

Uber,

290

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

Uber,

230

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

Twitter,

182

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,

294

What assumptions does linear regression machine learning algorithm make?

WalMart,

213

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,

354

How will you design a recommendation engine for jobs?

LinkedIn,

221

How will you test a machine learning model for accuracy?

178

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

Uber,

238

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

Facebook,

251

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,

388


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Science }

What do you understand by l1 and l2 regularization methods?

182


Please explain gradient descent?

199


How will you test a machine learning model for accuracy?

178


What is f test?

209


What do you understand by parametric and non-parametric methods? Explain with examples.

180


A disc is spinning on a spindle and you don't know the direction in which way the disc is spinning. You are provided with a set of pins.How will you use the pins to describe in which way the disc is spinning?

306


Explain how can you assess a good logistic model?

161


How can I become a data scientist?

219


What do you mean by graphics devices in data visualization?

179


Could you draw a comparison between overfitting and underfitting?

202


What is the goal of A/B Testing?

219


Can you define analytics?

180


Count the total number of trees in United States.

204


Write a function that takes in two sorted lists and outputs a sorted list that is their union?

245


During analysis, how do you treat missing values?

257