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1 answer published. Last candidate submission on May 21 2026, 11:14pm PDT. Interview question asked to Data Scientists interviewing at Mozilla, Bloomberg, Juniper Networks and other companies. Original question asked: Provide examples of real-world scenarios where overfitting and underfitting might occur, and explain the consequences of each for model performance and accuracy. Question last reported by a candidate interviewing at Huawei for a Data Scientist interview on Sep 30 2025, 1:35am PDT.