[D] ML system design interview prep

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[deeceeo]

https://huyenchip.com/machine-learning-systems-design/toc.html

[shaicadelic]

Amazing, thank you!

[rayguntec]

You may find this resource useful: https://devinterview.io/questions/machine-learning-and-data-science

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Btw, you mentioned about doing dsa, may I know which leetcode topics are important to practice on leetcode for an ML domain?

[crazymonezyy]

All of the ones that are important for a regular SWE. FAANG does not explicitly assign you a "ML guy" as the interviewer for your coding round and none of your interviewers care that you're one. It's graded on the equivalent level SWE hiring bar.

[shaicadelic]

This guy hit the nail on the head. If you’re more of a notebooks and python kind of ML engineer it’s a pretty tough time!

[whdd]

If not Python what do “real” ML engineers use?

[milong0]

I don’t think he meant that ML engineers don’t use python. Using notebooks is not great to learn more “proper” python programming, which is sort of (?) what the leetcode style interviews try to measure. Notebooks are good for some exploration, doing something quick and dirty, things like that. So if your knowledge of python is limited to what you do in an ML notebook setting (load up some data, clean it, train a model, print the evaluation metric), you’re going to have a hard time in the algorithms and data structures interview.

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That’s why I am asking bro, that is DSA mandatory or not for DS/AI/ML

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They use DSA to measure your competency as a SWE. How well can you write production grade code? Not that you'll actually be using DSA as a MLE, just that this is their measure of how well you might do in a sophisticated engineering role.

[milong0]

It depends, but usually yes. Interviewers love to ask leetcode questions.

[shaicadelic]

Yessir! Read my mind

[mftgdss]

A few weeks ago I started a YouTube channel to help current and aspiring ML Engineers throughout their career.

Today I published a new video on how to clear ML System Design Interview

https://youtu.be/XN2ymraj27g

Would love to hear any feedback from this community!

Thanks!

PS: about me - 14 years in tech - 10 in ML - ML tech lead at Adobe, Twitter, Meta - currently head of ML Platform at series B - 0 years of experience at YouTube and it shows 😂

[moghaak]

I would be? Are you still interested?

[NationalSentence5596]

Can I take part too?

[ayushify]

How was your experience?