Two Sigma Machine Learning Interview Questions

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Data Scientist

Analyze Temperatures and Update Regression

You are given historical daily temperature data for New York City and several nearby towns. Each row contains a date, the NYC temperature, and the tem...

Machine Learning
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216 people solved
Apr 21, 2026
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Data Scientist

Predict bike demand and avoid overfitting

You are given historical data for a city bike-sharing system. Available fields include station_id, hourly timestamp, number of bike pickups and return...

Machine Learning
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153 people solved
Mar 13, 2026
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How would you forecast bike demand?

This question evaluates a candidate's competency in time-series forecasting, feature engineering, model selection, and evaluation for short-horizon de...

Machine Learning
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130 people solved
Apr 2, 2026
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Predict Bike Dock Demand

This question evaluates a data scientist's competency in time-series demand forecasting, covering temporal target definition, temporal feature enginee...

Machine Learning
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201 people solved
Mar 18, 2026
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Medium
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Design features for house price prediction

This question evaluates competence in feature engineering, data preprocessing, baseline regression modeling, and model evaluation for tabular price pr...

Machine Learning
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109 people solved
Jan 22, 2026
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Hard
Data ScientistIntern

Build a Housing Price Prediction Model from Historical Data

You are given a historical dataset of residential real-estate transactions — sale records with property attributes, location information, and sale dat...

Machine Learning
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73 people solved
Nov 15, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist

How detect duplicate card records?

You are given a dataset of credit card transaction records and suspect that some records are duplicates. Discuss: - What real-world situations could c...

Machine Learning
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87 people solved
Feb 26, 2026
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Medium
Data ScientistIntern

Daily Temperatures by Town: Linear Models to Predict NYC Temperature

Daily Temperatures by Town: Linear Models to Predict NYC Temperature You are given a dataset of historical daily temperature readings for New York Cit...

Machine Learning
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73 people solved
Sep 10, 2025
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Medium
Data Scientist

Perform no-intercept linear regression from two datasets

You are given two pandas datasets to fit an OLS model without an intercept (through origin). Dataset A (features): df_X(user_id, clicks, impressions)....

Machine Learning
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142 people solved
Oct 13, 2025
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How to forecast bike dock demand

This question evaluates competency in time-series forecasting and demand prediction, including feature engineering, model selection and evaluation, ha...

Machine Learning
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60 people solved
Feb 13, 2026
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Hard
Data Scientist

How Would You Test Whether Momentum Is a Real Alpha Signal in Stocks?

In a quantitative-research data-analysis round, you are asked a methodology question. No coding is required — the interviewer wants you to reason like...

Machine Learning
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34 people solved
Oct 28, 2025
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Easy
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Design a house-price prediction model

This question evaluates machine learning and data science competencies including regression model design, feature engineering, data-splitting and leak...

Machine Learning
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68 people solved
Dec 15, 2025
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Hard
Data ScientistIntern

Predict a Company's Stock Price from Six Years of Web Search Logs

You are given a DataFrame containing the past six years of web search logs. Each row is a single search event with the following columns: | Column | T...

Machine Learning
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33 people solved
Nov 2, 2025
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Hard
Data Scientist

Slopes of y-on-x vs x-on-y Regression: Relationship and When They Are Equal

You fit two simple ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions, each with an intercept, on the same paired dataset $(x_i, y_i)$ for $i = 1, \dots, n$: 1....

Machine Learning
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40 people solved
Nov 28, 2025
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Forecast bikes available at a station

This question evaluates proficiency in time-series forecasting, feature engineering, handling temporal data splits, and incorporating operational cons...

Machine Learning
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70 people solved
Jan 6, 2026
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Medium
Data ScientistIntern

Predict Stock Prices from Google Search Data

You are given access to historical Google search data — relative search volume over time for arbitrary query terms — along with standard historical ma...

Machine Learning
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47 people solved
Dec 1, 2024
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Derive correlation bounds and omitted-variable bias

This question evaluates understanding of multivariate correlation structure and linear regression properties, focusing on feasible ranges and construc...

Machine Learning
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113 people solved
Jan 6, 2026
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Two Sigma
Medium
Data ScientistIntern

Why Is the Sample Mean Approximately Normal for Large Samples?

In statistics we routinely treat the average of a large sample as if it were normally distributed — for example, when building confidence intervals fo...

Machine Learning
3
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23 people solved
Dec 1, 2024

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