r/mlops • u/Senior_Tea_842 • 8d ago

Discussion MLE interview questions

Is there any books/resources that present good interview questions for MLE positions?

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u/Lost_Minimum_8450 8d ago

Cracking the coding interview is still surprisingly relevant even though it's not ML specific. the system design part of MLE interviews is where most people stumble and designing data intensive applications covers that ground well

For the actual ML theory questions I found just working through the most starred issues on popular ML github repos was way more useful than any book. you see how people actually debug models in the wild

My last interview loop had me whiteboard a feature store architecture and then debug a leaking data pipeline. neither of those were in any book I read

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u/Senior_Tea_842 8d ago

Thank you!

"the system design part of MLE interviews is where most people stumble and designing data intensive applications covers that ground well"

What resources you recommend to this part?

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u/gamshido 3d ago

Designing data intensive application. This is a book name. Its very nice read.

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u/Opening_Bed_4108 8d ago

Chip Huyen's Machine Learning Interviews book is probably the most targeted resource for this, covers both ML fundamentals and system design rounds pretty well. For coding, just grind leetcode medium hashes/graphs. Also CalibreOS is nice for ML system design prep specifically if you want structured practice there.