https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/tags/interview-prep/ Recent content in Interview-Prep on Personal Docs Hugo en-us Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sql_system_design_interview_guide_part2/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sql_system_design_interview_guide_part2/ Reference for navigating production-grade SQL architecture decisions, based on real Amazon assessment scenarios. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sql_interview_questions_part2/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sql_interview_questions_part2/ Real-world SQL interview questions from Stripe, Google, Visa, Amazon, Accenture, Facebook and more, with detailed MySQL solutions. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sql_interview_master_report_part1/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sql_interview_master_report_part1/ Senior-level SQL interview prep covering core gotchas and fundamentals, starting with NULL-handling traps. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/01_deep_learning_interview_map/ Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/01_deep_learning_interview_map/ A master navigation doc tracing why neural networks exist, through CNNs, detection/segmentation, and generative/attention/sequence models. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/03_all_tree_models_v1/ Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/03_all_tree_models_v1/ A walk through every major tree-based model, where each section ends with the specific weakness that motivated the next algorithm. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_agentic_systems_engineering/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_agentic_systems_engineering/ Interview-ready reference on agentic AI/GenAI engineering — framework choices (LangChain vs CrewAI vs AutoGen), multi-agent orchestration, tool-calling, RAG architecture, and production concerns. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_airflow_orchestration/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_airflow_orchestration/ A translation layer mapping ZenML pipeline concepts onto Apache Airflow architecture, for demonstrating orchestration fluency in interviews. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_aws_data_ingestion_pipeline/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_aws_data_ingestion_pipeline/ High-level walkthrough of an AWS-based IoT data ingestion pipeline for a manufacturing use case, and how the core services connect end-to-end. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_core_statistics/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_core_statistics/ A worked-example-driven refresher on core statistics, using a running coin-toss example to build fast, genuine intuition. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_info_theory_memory_map/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_info_theory_memory_map/ A compact memory map connecting entropy, Gini impurity, and information gain to the specific interview questions they answer. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_pandas_numpy_python_tricks/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_pandas_numpy_python_tricks/ A running set of toy datasets and idiomatic pandas/NumPy/Python snippets for common data manipulation interview tasks. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_production_oop_patterns_ml/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_production_oop_patterns_ml/ A tour of OOP design patterns — encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, composition — as applied to building production ML systems. https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sampling_and_measurement/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0530 https://docs.sushantpatil.dev/posts/00_sampling_and_measurement/ A ground-up look at sampling design, weighting, and universe projections — is your data a trustworthy mirror of the population? 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