Gaining a deep understanding of how real-world systems are built and scaled can give you a significant advantage. Below is a curated list of must-read papers that will help you prepare:
Airbnb:
Predict LTV of Homes (Airbnb): https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/using-machine-learning-to-predict-value-of-homes-on-airbnb-9272d3d4739d
Learning to Rank Diversity (Airbnb):https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/learning-to-rank-diversely-add6b1929621
Machine Learning Powered Search Experience in Search (Airbnb):https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/machine-learning-powered-search-ranking-of-airbnb-experiences-110b4b1a0789
Linkedin:
AI Behind LinkedIn Recruiter Search and Recommendation System: https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/recommendations/ai-behind-linkedin-recruiter-search-and-recommendation-systems
Ad click prediction: Deep Learning Ads click prediction in linkedin
People You May Know :Building a Large-Scale Recommendation System: People You May Know
Feed Relevance: Making Your Feed More Relevant
LinkedIn’s News Feed system https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2020/understanding-feed-dwell-time.
Meta / Instagram:
Lessons Learned at Instagram Feed and Stories (Instagram):https://instagram-engineering.com/lessons-learned-at-instagram-stories-and-feed-machine-learning-54f3aaa09e56
Instagram multi-stage recommendation system. https://ai.facebook.com/blog/powered-by-ai-instagrams-explore-recommender-system/.
News Feed ranking in Facebook. https://engineering.fb.com/2021/01/26/ml-applications/news-feed-ranking/.
Netflix:
Scaling Media Machine Learning (Netflix):https://netflixtechblog.com/scaling-media-machine-learning-at-netflix-f19b400243
YouTube:
Deep Neural Network for YouTube Recommendation (YouTube):
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/45530.pdf
A multitask ranking system. https://daiwk.github.io/assets/youtube-multitask.pdf.
Olx:
Understand Language Through Search (OLX):https://tech.olx.com/understanding-language-through-search-78ea37be7ac8
Learning-To-Rank: Sorting Search Results:https://tech.olx.com/learning-to-rank-sorting-search-results-b21a8bd48808
Ranking Ads with Machine Learning:https://tech.olx.com/ranking-ads-with-machine-learning-ee03d7734bf4
Pinterest:
Visual Search : https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.07647
Uber:
https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/michelangelo-machine-learning-platform/
https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/innovative-recommendation-applications-using-two-tower-embeddings/
https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/uber-eats-recommending-marketplace/
https://www.uber.com/en-IN/blog/deepeta-how-uber-predicts-arrival-times/