LinkedIn Machine Learning Interview Questions

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Explain Logistic Regression, Backprop, and Adam

Walk through the mathematical foundations that connect logistic regression to modern deep-learning training. The interviewer expects you to write the ...

Machine Learning
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1205 people solved
Apr 5, 2026
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Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Answer practical ML foundations questions

In an ML interview, you are asked a series of practical ML foundation questions: 1) Model outputs probabilities. When do you need probability calibrat...

Machine Learning
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187 people solved
Feb 18, 2026
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Medium
Data Scientist Locked

Explain variance reduction in random forests

This question evaluates understanding of variance reduction in ensemble methods, the impact of inter-tree correlation on averaged predictors, and the ...

Machine Learning
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86 people solved
Feb 19, 2026
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LinkedIn
Easy
Data Scientist Locked

Handle imbalance, sampling, and overfitting

This question evaluates a data scientist's proficiency in machine learning topics including handling class imbalance, selecting and interpreting evalu...

Machine Learning
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104 people solved
Feb 16, 2026
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LinkedIn
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Handle imbalance, validate samples, and avoid overfitting

This question evaluates competencies in handling class imbalance, choosing and interpreting evaluation metrics and decision thresholds, validating sam...

Machine Learning
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131 people solved
Feb 11, 2026
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Medium
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Explain activations, losses, and Adam

This question evaluates understanding of neural network building blocks (layers and activation functions), comparative properties of activation/gating...

Machine Learning
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135 people solved
Feb 11, 2026
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LinkedIn
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Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Explain overfitting vs underfitting and fixes

This question evaluates understanding of model generalization in supervised machine learning, focusing on the concepts of overfitting and underfitting...

Machine Learning
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108 people solved
Feb 8, 2026
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Medium
Data Scientist

Design a short-video recommendation system

Design a recommendation system for a short-video feed product. Your answer should cover the full pipeline: 1. Objective and labels: Define what the sy...

Machine Learning
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97 people solved
Oct 12, 2025
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Data Scientist

Handle imbalance, sampling, and overfitting

Machine Learning Fundamentals: Imbalance, Sampling, Overfitting, and Regularization You are asked several machine learning fundamentals questions in a...

Machine Learning
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57 people solved
Jul 8, 2025
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LinkedIn
Medium
Data Scientist

Train with imbalanced sampled data

You are training a binary classifier on a very large dataset where the positive class is rare. Because the full dataset is too large to train on direc...

Machine Learning
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64 people solved
Sep 5, 2025
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LinkedIn
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Data Scientist Locked

Design a short-video recommender system

This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in end-to-end machine learning system design for recommender systems, including retrieval and ra...

Machine Learning
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293 people solved
Feb 1, 2026
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LinkedIn
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Explain Core ML Fundamentals

Review ML fundamentals including logistic regression, cross-entropy loss, batch versus stochastic gradient descent, batch size tradeoffs, overfitting,...

Machine Learning
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53 people solved
May 3, 2025

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