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The hershey company Machine Learning Engineer Interview Guide

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Given two dates, write a program to find the number of business days that exist between the date range.

Example:

Input:

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code>date1 = 2021-01-31
date2 = 2021-02-18
</code></pre>

Output:

<pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code>def delta_buss_days(date1,date2) -&gt; 14
</code></pre>

Business Days

Python & General Programming

How would you design a classifier to predict the optimal moment for a commercial break during a video?

Commercial Break

Machine Learning

Let’s say you are designing a marketplace for your website.

Selling firearms is prohibited by your website’s Terms of Service Agreement (not to mention the laws of your country). To this end, you want to create a system that can automatically detect if a listing on the marketplace is selling a gun.

How would you go about doing this?

While designing a system to detect firearms listings on a marketplace website, what metrics could be used to minimize both false positives and false negatives?

While designing a system to detect firearms listings on a marketplace website, what metrics could be used to minimize both false positives and false negatives?

Detecting Firearm Sales

How would you build a model to detect if a post on a marketplace is talking about selling a gun?

The hershey company Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

Senior Product Manager, S/4 SC

Posted Date:

Aug 7, 2025

Requisition Number:

125852

Job Location: Remote
Hershey, PA preferred. Open to remote.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
As a product manager, you play a crucial role in defining the strategy, roadmap and features of the products delivered in the Supply Chain area. You will need to be both strategic and tactical. You will oversee the entire product lifecycle, from definition and planning to product release. Your leadership will be crucial for cross-functional collaboration and the success of our product portfolio. With your expertise in both business and technical domains, you'll bring the product roadmap to life.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Define, evangelize, and continuously evolve an area-specific product vision and strategy, identify new areas of impact through market and user research, while driving business value through improved self-service, automation, and thoughtful product experiences.
Define and publish rolling 12-month road maps prioritizing initiatives based on customer needs, business impact and technical feasibility.
Identify and deliver innovation through experimentation to explore new opportunities and solve complex problems
Business Process and Functional Design:  Lead the design for respective E2E business processes and the related S/4 functional design. Collaborate with/lead our Business SMEs and 3rd parties.
Business Process Digitization and Automation: Identify digitization and automation opportunities. Lead the automation and digitization design for respective business processes (business process and functional design) using the appropriate technologies and features within & beyond the SAP S4 HANA ecosystem.
Implementation and Testing:  Oversee/Manage the implementation process in close collaboration with our 3rd parties. Lead the creation & documentation of test scripts and execute test scripts. Ensure required tests are executed in compliance with policy - including regression testing. Oversee the portions of UVT within the respective business areas and collaborate with our Business SMEs and 3rd party throughout. Support test automation.
Leadership:  Lead the execution/implementation of medium to large initiatives ($5-7M) from design to deployment. Execute without or very limited project mgmt. or scrum support.
Performance Monitoring:  Lead the design & implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the health and performance of the respective business processes and systems. Leverage data and analytics to identify improvement opportunities.
Collaboration:  Collaborate with our 3rd parties to leverage their expertise and support to design and implement the enhancements, digitization, and automation of our processes.
Documentation and Training: Ensure business, functional, and system design documentation is up to date. Enhance/develop training materials and execute training sessions to ensure end-user proficiency and compliance.
Stakeholder Management:  Be a key part in the stakeholder management across the enterprise including executives.
Sustained business process and system stability.
Ensure system upgradability due to appropriate customizations.
Required documentation (business process, functional, training, testing) is in solid shape
Reduce cost to serve and manual errors by leveraging process digitization.
Design and implement business process and system changes and enhancements in close collaboration with the business and technology community. Ensure buy-in and support for changes.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Proven track record landing quantifiable business impact through product in partnership cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, product management, UX, engineering, and architecture.
Business Process & Functional Design:  As an experienced and skilled problem solver & leader design our end-to-end business processes with a strong focus on digitization & automation to reduce cost to serve, error rate, and speed to market. Develop the business process and functional design while leveraging the S/4 ecosystem capabilities to limit core S/4 customizations. Work closely with our business SMEs and stakeholders to ensure support and buy-in for the changes. Collaborate with our technical experts to ensure an effective technical design.
Testing and Deployment:  Lead the testing process by ensuring the required test scripts are created and executed as needed. Be a key decision maker/approver in the deployment process. Ensure required compliance documentation is created and stored. Support the deployment and hypercare process as needed.
Documentation and Training:  Ensure the required documentation (business design, technical design, training material) is developed/enhanced/stored and accessible as needed. Support the development of training material and the execution of training as needed.
Cross functional work:  Collaborate with the Business SMEs and the technical team from developing the process design to deploying the technical and process solution.
Management of initiatives/deliverables:  Experienced in the deliverable (agile or waterfall) of medium to large initiatives from design to deployment without the need for scrum or project mgmt. support.
Strong Stakeholder Management:  Experienced in managing stakeholders across the enterprise across all levels up to Executives.

Experience & Education:
Required Education:  Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or related field. Advanced degree (MBA, Master in STEM) a big plus. Mix of Business and STEM degrees a big plus.
Required Experience (yrs.) in business process and functional design in S/4 landscape:
10 years of experience in product management, including creating and driving product roadmaps from conception to launch.
Highly motivated 'go-getter' driven to achieve business results with the ability to remain positive and focused on delivering customer outcomes
Deep understanding of product management principles, methodologies, and best practices
Ability to think strategically and translate business goals into actionable product strategies
Previous consulting experience in a top IT or Mgmt Consulting firm preferred
Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and Agile methodologies.

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Nearest Major Market:  Harrisburg

Product Manager, S/4 OTC

Posted Date:

Aug 7, 2025

Requisition Number:

125851

Job Location: Remote
Hershey, PA preferred. Open to remote.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
As a product manager, you play a crucial role in defining the strategy, roadmap and features of the products delivered in the Order-to-Cash area. You will need to be both strategic and tactical. You will oversee the entire product lifecycle, from definition and planning to product release. Your leadership will be crucial for cross-functional collaboration and the success of our product portfolio. With your expertise in both business and technical domains, you'll bring the product roadmap to life.
You will play a key role in leading the functional specific collaboration and delivery with 3rd party partners to collectively deliver a) design/enhancement of parts of our business processes in the Global Template, b) development of the related functional design within the S/4 ecosystem for these business processes, and c) support the implementation and deployment of enhancements/changes in the system and processes including testing and training. The ideal candidate will have extensive product management experience, order-to-cash domain expertise, and demonstrated influence collaborating across organizational boundaries to drive strategic product investments and land quantifiable business outcomes.
The candidate will also possess a solid background in CPG, strong business process and functional design experience in the context of SAP S4 HANA, along with reasonable design leadership experience, and a strong passion for automation, digitization, and continuous improvement. A successful candidate will effectively leverage 3rd party capabilities and services to address opportunities to create business value.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
* Define, evangelize, and continuously evolve an area-specific product vision and strategy, identify new areas of impact through market and user research, while driving business value through improved self-service, automation, and thoughtful product experiences.
* Define and publish rolling 12-month road maps prioritizing initiatives based on customer needs, business impact and technical feasibility.
* Identify and deliver innovation through experimentation to explore new opportunities and solve complex problems
* Business Process and Functional Design: Lead the design for respective parts of our E2E business processes and the related S/4 functional design. Collaborate with our Business SMEs and 3rd parties.
* Business Process Digitization and Automation: Identify opportunities and lead the automation and digitization design for respective parts of our business processes (business process and functional design) using the appropriate technologies and features within & beyond the SAP S4 HANA ecosystem.
* Implementation and Testing: Support the implementation process. Lead the creation & documentation of test scripts and execute test scripts. Collaborate with our business SMEs during UVT and collaborate with our 3rd party throughout. Support the automation of testing.
* Leadership: Lead the execution/implementation of small to medium initiatives from design to deployment (
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
* Proven track record landing quantifiable business impact through product in partnership cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, product management, UX, engineering, and architecture.
* Business Process & Functional Design: As an experienced and skilled problem solver design our end-to-end business processes with a strong focus on digitization & automation to reduce the cost to serve, error rate, and speed to market. Develop the business process and functional design while leveraging the S/4 ecosystem capabilities to limit core S/4 customizations. Work closely with our business SMEs and stakeholders to ensure support and buy-in for the changes. Collaborate with our technical experts to ensure an effective technical design.
* Testing and Deployment: Support the testing process by creating and executing test scripts and collaborating with the business SMEs on user validation testing. Ensure required compliance documentation is created and stored. Support the deployment and hyper care process as needed.
* Documentation and Training: Develop/Enhance the required business process and functional documentation. Ensure both documents are properly stored. Support the development of training material and the execution of training as needed.
* Cross functional work: Collaborate with the Business SMEs and the technical team from developing the process design to deploying the technical and process solution.
* Management of initiatives/deliverables: Experienced in the deliverable (agile or waterfall) of small to medium initiatives from design to deployment without the need for scrum or project mgmt. support.
Experience & Education:
* Required Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or related field. Advanced degree (MBA, Master in STEM) a big plus. Mix of Business and STEM degrees a big plus.
* Required Experience (yrs.) in business process and functional design in S/4 landscape:
* Ideally 5-8 years of experience
* 5+ years of experience in product management, including creating and driving product roadmaps from conception to launch.
* Highly motivated 'go-getter' driven to achieve business results with the ability to remain positive and focused on delivering customer outcomes
* Deep understanding of product management principles, methodologies, and best practices
* Ability to think strategically and translate business goals into actionable product strategies
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to influence and inspire stakeholders of all levels.
* Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and Agile methodologies.
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Nearest Major Market:  Harrisburg

Sr Data Scientist

Posted Date:

Jul 20, 2025

Requisition Number:

123890

Job Location : Dallas, Texas
Office Location: Frisco, TX
This will be a hybrid role
Summary:
At Hershey, data isn't just about numbers-it's about creating the future of snacking. Our data scientists use advanced analytics to understand customer preferences, forecast trends that shape the industry and optimize our business. You'll have the opportunity to work on projects that directly impact the Hershey products that people know and love - driving real-world results and more moments of goodness. In this role, this individual will apply scientific principles to analyze complex datasets to make business decision while developing scalable algorithms and models.
Major Responsibilities:
Translates ambiguous business problems into data science problems. Analyzes complex datasets to inform or make decisions to address those business problems.
Applies scientific principles and concepts to support significant invention. Uses a range of scientific methodologies and follows best practices for those methodologies.
Proactively identifies opportunities and solutions to problems. Solutions may require novel techniques or approaches.
Creates metrics and measurements to quantify the business impact of the work.
Writes accurate and clear technical documentation and reports, including appropriate mathematical rigor as needed.
Communicates the approach and outcomes of models clearly and effectively with non-technical stakeholders to build trust.
Collaborates with stakeholders across a broad set of functions (science, data, engineering, product, business).

Scope of Work:
Influences multiple teams to build consensus and advise Sr leadership.
Evaluate cross-team perspectives and understand how interactions among teams, processes and systems need to be modelled in solutions.
Utilize deep understanding of business challenges and the applicability of relevant data science disciplines and interactions amongst systems to identify the most advantageous solutions that deliver significant benefit to the business
Contributions influence technical and business strategy. Harmonize discordant views and lead the resolution of contentious issues.
Optimize connected systems using their dynamics. Improve consistency and integration between team's solutions and the work done by related teams.
Improve work done by others either via collaboration or by increasing their scientific knowledge using specialized tools or advanced techniques

Qualifications:
Data analytics skills and experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets
Deep expertise in one or more of: machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, operations research, applied mathematics, statistics, econometrics, causal analysis, or similar science discipline.
Experience developing one or more of: A/B testing capabilities, forecasting models, inventory optimization, capacity planning, pricing, recommender systems, classification models, causal impact, customer choice models, or similar science products.
Proficiency with math/stats software (e.g. R, Matlab, SAS, Stata, Python numpy) or other domain specific software (e.g. Python/TensorFlow for ML). Basic proficiency with SQL.
Strong skills in model development, model validation, and model implementation. For ML-related roles, additional expertise in model deployment and ongoing production support.
Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.

Experience & Education Requirements:
Masters/PhD in a quantitative field (CS, CE, ML, OR, Econ, or related). PhD preferred, with a minimum of 5 years of experience in data science or a related field

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Nearest Major Market:  Dallas

Nearest Secondary Market:  Fort Worth

Senior Product Manager, S/4 SC

Posted Date:

Jul 9, 2025

Requisition Number:

125852

Job Location: Remote
Hershey, PA preferred. Open to remote.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
As a product manager, you play a crucial role in defining the strategy, roadmap and features of the products delivered in the Supply Chain area. You will need to be both strategic and tactical. You will oversee the entire product lifecycle, from definition and planning to product release. Your leadership will be crucial for cross-functional collaboration and the success of our product portfolio. With your expertise in both business and technical domains, you'll bring the product roadmap to life.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Define, evangelize, and continuously evolve an area-specific product vision and strategy, identify new areas of impact through market and user research, while driving business value through improved self-service, automation, and thoughtful product experiences.
Define and publish rolling 12-month road maps prioritizing initiatives based on customer needs, business impact and technical feasibility.
Identify and deliver innovation through experimentation to explore new opportunities and solve complex problems
Business Process and Functional Design:  Lead the design for respective E2E business processes and the related S/4 functional design. Collaborate with/lead our Business SMEs and 3rd parties.
Business Process Digitization and Automation: Identify digitization and automation opportunities. Lead the automation and digitization design for respective business processes (business process and functional design) using the appropriate technologies and features within & beyond the SAP S4 HANA ecosystem.
Implementation and Testing:  Oversee/Manage the implementation process in close collaboration with our 3rd parties. Lead the creation & documentation of test scripts and execute test scripts. Ensure required tests are executed in compliance with policy - including regression testing. Oversee the portions of UVT within the respective business areas and collaborate with our Business SMEs and 3rd party throughout. Support test automation.
Leadership:  Lead the execution/implementation of medium to large initiatives ($5-7M) from design to deployment. Execute without or very limited project mgmt. or scrum support.
Performance Monitoring:  Lead the design & implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor the health and performance of the respective business processes and systems. Leverage data and analytics to identify improvement opportunities.
Collaboration:  Collaborate with our 3rd parties to leverage their expertise and support to design and implement the enhancements, digitization, and automation of our processes.
Documentation and Training: Ensure business, functional, and system design documentation is up to date. Enhance/develop training materials and execute training sessions to ensure end-user proficiency and compliance.
Stakeholder Management:  Be a key part in the stakeholder management across the enterprise including executives.
Sustained business process and system stability.
Ensure system upgradability due to appropriate customizations.
Required documentation (business process, functional, training, testing) is in solid shape
Reduce cost to serve and manual errors by leveraging process digitization.
Design and implement business process and system changes and enhancements in close collaboration with the business and technology community. Ensure buy-in and support for changes.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Proven track record landing quantifiable business impact through product in partnership cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, product management, UX, engineering, and architecture.
Business Process & Functional Design:  As an experienced and skilled problem solver & leader design our end-to-end business processes with a strong focus on digitization & automation to reduce cost to serve, error rate, and speed to market. Develop the business process and functional design while leveraging the S/4 ecosystem capabilities to limit core S/4 customizations. Work closely with our business SMEs and stakeholders to ensure support and buy-in for the changes. Collaborate with our technical experts to ensure an effective technical design.
Testing and Deployment:  Lead the testing process by ensuring the required test scripts are created and executed as needed. Be a key decision maker/approver in the deployment process. Ensure required compliance documentation is created and stored. Support the deployment and hypercare process as needed.
Documentation and Training:  Ensure the required documentation (business design, technical design, training material) is developed/enhanced/stored and accessible as needed. Support the development of training material and the execution of training as needed.
Cross functional work:  Collaborate with the Business SMEs and the technical team from developing the process design to deploying the technical and process solution.
Management of initiatives/deliverables:  Experienced in the deliverable (agile or waterfall) of medium to large initiatives from design to deployment without the need for scrum or project mgmt. support.
Strong Stakeholder Management:  Experienced in managing stakeholders across the enterprise across all levels up to Executives.

Experience & Education:
Required Education:  Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering or related field. Advanced degree (MBA, Master in STEM) a big plus. Mix of Business and STEM degrees a big plus.
Required Experience (yrs.) in business process and functional design in S/4 landscape:
10 years of experience in product management, including creating and driving product roadmaps from conception to launch.
Highly motivated 'go-getter' driven to achieve business results with the ability to remain positive and focused on delivering customer outcomes
Deep understanding of product management principles, methodologies, and best practices
Ability to think strategically and translate business goals into actionable product strategies
Previous consulting experience in a top IT or Mgmt Consulting firm preferred
Knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) and Agile methodologies.

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Nearest Major Market:  Harrisburg

Question	Topic	Difficulty	Ask Chance
Business Days	Python & General Programming	Easy	Very High
Commercial Break	Machine Learning	Hard	Very High
Detecting Firearm Sales	Machine Learning	Medium	High

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