Interview Practice Questions

What monitoring system could we integrate?

How many items should the candidate generator return?

How to use user interaction signals with search results?

How to integrate a new model into the existing system?

Do we know which metrics correlate with the company's revenue?

What should we do if the number of candidate results reaches a million?

What is our CTR target for recommended products?

What could be a drawback of a strategy that considers only additions to the cart?

Will we apply any business rules to the baseline?

What fallback would you provide if the model returned no recommendations?

What should we do to avoid recommending only similar products?

Are cart recommendations more of an item-to-item or an item-to-user task?

What would be the nearest neighbors of that ring with the luxurious gemstone?

Is that acceptable to us?

Would co-occurrence help here?

What complementary products would I want to see alongside this ring?

Could we formalize this constraint and incorporate it into our A&N model?

What objective do we want cart recommendations to achieve?

How do we do that?

How good is it if the recommendations contain only a ring?