Code Room
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Subject Model drift calibrationLevel Mid–Senior~30 minCommon in ML systems interviewsIndustries Technology

Question

Your lead-scoring model outputs a calibrated probability that sales uses with a fixed 0.7 threshold to decide which leads to call. A 'calibration drift' alarm fires: a reliability-diagram check shows predicted probabilities are now systematically over-confident — leads the model says are 0.8 convert at only ~0.55 in reality — and this has worsened over the past three weeks. AUC/ranking quality, however, is essentially unchanged (the model still orders leads well). No model deploy in 50 days. Dashboards: the overall positive base rate has slowly fallen (market softened) while feature distributions are roughly stable. How do you triage and respond?

What a strong answer looks like

Stop the bleeding first (mitigate), then form hypotheses from real signals. Separate root cause from symptom, communicate status as you go, and close with what prevents a repeat.

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