Machine Learning System Design Interview, issue 17, Dec 3, 2025

The Data Leakage Trap

Senior Machine Learning Engineer interview at Google DeepMind, and the interviewer asks:

How do you handle these missing values before we start training?

The train-fit/test-transform discipline every ML engineer must know before touching a real pipeline.

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