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Machine Learning

Classification and Regression

Justify a Neural Network

Bias vs. Variance Tradeoff

Analytics

What metrics would you use to determine the value of each marketing channel?

Marketing Channel Metrics

Let’s say that you're in charge of an e-commerce D2C business that sells socks. What business health metrics would you care?

D2C Socks e-Commerce

Brainteasers

How would you answer when an Interviewer asks why you applied to their company?

Why Do You Want to Work With Us

What do you tell an interviewer when they ask you what your strengths and weaknesses are?

Your Strengths and Weaknesses

Product Sense & Metrics

Docs Metrics

Forecasting & Time Series

Forecasting New Year Revenue

When an interviewer asks a question along the lines of:

<ul>
<li>What would your current manager say about you? What constructive criticisms might he give?</li>
<li>What are your three biggest strengths and weaknesses you have identified in yourself?</li>
</ul>

How would you respond?

When asked about your strengths in an interview, what is an effective way to respond?

When asked about your strengths in an interview, what is an effective way to respond?

Your Strengths and Weaknesses I

Which of the following is an acceptable strategy when discussing weaknesses in an interview?

Which of the following is an acceptable strategy when discussing weaknesses in an interview?

Your Strengths and Weaknesses II

When an interviewer asks you a question along the lines of:

<ul>
<li>Why did you apply to our company?</li>
<li>What are you looking for in your next job?</li>
<li>What makes you a good fit for our company?</li>
</ul>

How should you respond?

When asked 'What are you looking for in your next job?' in an interview, how can you tie the company's employee benefits into your response?

When asked 'What are you looking for in your next job?' in an interview, how can you tie the company's employee benefits into your response?

Why Do You Want to Work With Us I

How can company values be used effectively in an interview when asked 'What makes you a good fit for our company?'

How can company values be used effectively in an interview when asked 'What makes you a good fit for our company?'

Why Do You Want to Work With Us II

When responding to the question 'Why did you apply to our company?' during an interview, what aspect should you highlight?

When responding to the question 'Why did you apply to our company?' during an interview, what aspect should you highlight?

Why Do You Want to Work With Us III

Imagine you are asked to build a machine learning model to decide new loan approvals for a
financial firm. You ask the data department in the company for a subset of data to get started
working on the problem. The data includes different features about applicants such as age,
occupation, zip code, height, number of children, favorite color, etc. You decide to build
multiple machine learning models to test out different ideas before settling on the best one.

How would you explain the bias-variance tradeoff with regards to
building and choosing a model to use?

What are the key differences between classification models and regression models?

What is the MOST important difference between regression and classification models?

What is the MOST important difference between regression and classification models?

Classification vs Regression

Let’s say you are working on Google Docs. A product manager comes to you and asks how the product is doing. 

What are the top five metrics that you would start tracking to understand the health of Google Docs?

Let’s say you’re given all the different marketing channels along with their respective marketing costs at a company called Mode, that sells B2B analytics dashboards.

What metrics would you use to determine the value of each marketing channel?

When determining the value of each marketing channel for the company Mode, which metric is considered the key metric?

When determining the value of each marketing channel for the company Mode, which metric is considered the key metric?

Let’s say that you work on the revenue forecasting team at a company like Facebook.

An executive comes to you asking about how much revenue Facebook will make in the coming year.

How would you forecast revenue for the next year?

Let’s say that you’re in charge of an e-commerce D2C business that sells socks.

What business health metrics would you care about tracking on a company dashboard?

Let’s say your manager asks you to build a model with a neural network to solve a business problem.

How would you justify the complexity of building such a model and explain the predictions to non-technical stakeholders?

Which is the following domains is generally NOT a good use case for using a deep neural net?

Which is the following domains is generally NOT a good use case for using a deep neural net?

Neural Net Use Cases

You’re given a dataframe containing a list of user IDs and their full names (e.g. ‘James Emerson’).

Transform this dataframe into a dataframe that contains the user ids and only the first name of each user.

Example:

Input:

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>user_id</th>
<th>name</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1034</td>
<td>James Emerson</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>9430</td>
<td>Fiona Woodward</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>7281</td>
<td>Alvin Gross</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>5264</td>
<td>Deborah Handler</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>8995</td>
<td>Leah Xue</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Output:

<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>user_id</th>
<th>name</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1034</td>
<td>James</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>9430</td>
<td>Fiona</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>7281</td>
<td>Alvin</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>5264</td>
<td>Deborah</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>8995</td>
<td>Leah</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Transform a dataframe containing a list of user IDs and their full names into one that contains only the user ids and the first name of each user.

First Names Only

Data Structures & Algorithms

Challenge

<h3>Job Description</h3><div>Job Description<div>Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow. We are currently recruiting for a Senior Data Scientist with a current TS/SCI w/ poly to support a critical program located in Annapolis Junction, MD.  Relevant experience must be two or more of the following:<ul><li>Designing/implementing machine learning</li><li>Data science</li><li>Advanced analytical algorithms</li><li>Programming (skill in at least one high-level language (e.g., Python))</li><li>Statistical analysis (e.g., variability, sampling error, inference, hypothesis testing, EDA, application of linear models)</li><li>Data management (e.g., data cleaning and transformation)</li><li>Data mining</li><li>Data modeling and assessment</li><li>Artificial intelligence, and/or </li><li>Software engineering</li></ul>Required experience: Bachelor’s degree and 15 years of relevant experience.  Associate’s degree and 17 years of relevant experience may be considered for individuals with in-depth experience that is clearly related to the position. Degree must be in: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics/Applied Statistics, Machine Learning, Data Science, Operations Research or Computer Science. A broader range of degrees will be considered if accompanied by a Certificate in Data Science from an accredited college/university. Pay Range: There are many factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employee owners value the flexibility at ATS that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, career growth, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad mix of exceptional benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families.   At ATS, you will be eligible to participate in a comprehensive benefits package such as healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here Employee Resources. Target salary for this position is between $225k-$250k, depending on experience.EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO) STATEMENT ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable law. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.Powered by JazzHROhhMgTxLAm</div></div>

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Neural Network Architecture	Deep Learning	Hard
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