Yahoo interview notes, page 2 of 2

“I underestimated how deep they wanted to go.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the obvious stuff, platform breakdown, geography, recent releases, and that part felt okay.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I stared at this for a second because it looks like a simple probability problem but it really isn't.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Blanked for a solid few seconds on this one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Yahoo, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The case-insensitive part is what tripped me up initially.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Warmup question, pretty much just GROUP BY user_id with SUM and ROUND.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard dedup problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The experiment exclusion tripped me up more than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent answer prepped but it felt a little rehearsed coming out.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I stared at this for way too long before saying anything useful.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist interview at Yahoo, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.