Reddit Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions

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Medium
Machine Learning EngineerSenior+ Locked

Design Comment Prediction Ranking System

This question evaluates proficiency in end-to-end machine learning system design for predicting user engagement, specifically the probability of a use...

ML System Design
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203 people solved
Jun 4, 2026
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Reddit
Easy
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Design a Tennis Scoring System

This question evaluates object-oriented design, state management, input validation, and the ability to model domain-specific scoring rules for a two-p...

Software Engineering Fundamentals
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48 people solved
May 23, 2026
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Reddit
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Design comment ranking

This question evaluates competency in designing large-scale machine learning ranking systems, testing skills such as candidate generation, label and t...

ML System Design
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153 people solved
Mar 2, 2026
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Reddit
Medium
Machine Learning EngineerSenior+

Model y from x and interpret distributions

Scenario You are given a dataset with one input feature x and a target y. The interviewer asks: “How would you model this?” Later, you are shown a plo...

Machine Learning
14
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174 people solved
Feb 12, 2026
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Reddit
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Analyze CTR Data and Train Model

This question evaluates end-to-end supervised machine learning competencies for tabular click-through rate prediction, including exploratory data anal...

Machine Learning
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109 people solved
Feb 1, 2026
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Reddit
Medium
Machine Learning EngineerSenior+

Design a video recommendation system

Scenario You are designing an ML-driven video recommendation product (home feed + “up next”) for a consumer app. The interviewer focuses heavily on in...

ML System Design
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306 people solved
Feb 12, 2026
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Reddit
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer

Improve Reddit onboarding

How would you improve the onboarding experience for new users on a community platform similar to Reddit? Assume the goal is to help first-time users q...

Behavioral & Leadership
7
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71 people solved
Mar 2, 2026
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Reddit
Medium
Machine Learning EngineerSenior+

Describe a failure and a success

Questions 1. Tell me about a time you failed (or something didn’t go as planned). What happened, what did you learn, and what would you do differently...

Behavioral & Leadership
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98 people solved
Feb 12, 2026
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Reddit
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Build and evaluate click prediction models

Click-Through Rate (CTR) Prediction: Build, Compare, and Justify Models Context You are given a tabular dataset for binary click prediction (click = 1...

Machine Learning
14
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181 people solved
Sep 6, 2025
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Reddit
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Implement a simplified memcached server

This question evaluates a candidate's ability to implement a TCP-based in-memory key-value store, exercising skills in network I/O, protocol parsing, ...

Coding & Algorithms
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11 people solved
May 31, 2026
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Reddit
Hard
Machine Learning Engineer Locked

Solve palindrome and list tasks

This question evaluates proficiency in string algorithms and linked list manipulation, specifically techniques for constructing the shortest palindrom...

Coding & Algorithms
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66 people solved
Mar 2, 2026
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Reddit
Medium
Machine Learning Engineer

Load and prepare JSON for modeling

Using Python in a Jupyter notebook, load a JSON dataset with fields: ( 1) hours spent reading A posts (float), ( 2) hours spent reading B posts (float...

Data Manipulation (SQL/Python)
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6 people solved
Sep 6, 2025

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