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Applied Scientist Interview Questions

Practice 9403 coding, system design and machine learning questions from 546 companies, sorted by role, topic and interview round. Every question has step-by-step hints, a code runner that supports 8 languages and an AI mentor; members also get the full solution walkthrough.

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  • AmazonMediumApplied Scientist
    Compute and Explain Mean and Variance

    This question tests your understanding of statistical estimators for mean and variance, the derivation of Bessel's correction, catastrophic cancellation in naive computations, and numerically stable single-pass algorithms like Welford's.

    Statistics & MathOnsiteStatisticsNumerical AnalysisAlgorithms
  • AmazonMediumApplied Scientist
    Mean and Variance Through Maximum Likelihood

    Derive the maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) for the mean and variance of a univariate Gaussian distribution, and analyze the bias of the resulting variance estimator.

    Statistics & MathOnsitemaximum-likelihoodgaussian-distributionbias-variance