# How do you define quality in an ML context? Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/questions/6286/define-quality-ml-context Source observed: 2026-11-05T00:17:52.940Z Last checked: 2026-11-05T00:17:52.94+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-06T22:19:14.783+00:00 --- # How do you define quality in an ML context? We are Aced (formerly Exponent), an interview-preparation platform. This question belongs to our **Concept** and **Machine Learning** collections and is tagged for **Technical Program Manager** interviews and **Apple**. ## Question details - **Question:** How do you define quality in an ML context? - **Role:** [Technical Program Manager](https://www.aced.io/questions?role=tpm) - **Company:** [Apple](https://www.aced.io/questions?company=apple) - **Categories:** [Concept](https://www.aced.io/questions?type=concept), [Machine Learning](https://www.aced.io/questions?type=machine-learning) - **Interview experiences:** 1 shared - **Community answers:** No answers contributed by the community yet. Detailed company statistics for this question require an [upgrade](https://www.aced.io/upgrade?src=questions). To contribute an answer, log in or sign up; submitting an answer marks the question complete. ## Interview experience ### [Apple · 10 months ago](https://www.aced.io/experiences/apple-technical-program-manager-interview-c836f6) > A sourcer had been nudging me on LinkedIn for a while, so I never did a normal recruiter screen. Once I sent my resume, two hiring managers in the same Siri AI/ML org wanted to talk, so Apple ran one combined process for both EPM roles instead of making me do two separate loops. I did two hiring manager screens, then a joint onsite with a data science manager, an ML engineering manager, another behavioral round with one of the hiring managers, and a final conversation with a very senior engineering leader. The whole thing felt extremely team-dependent and very niche, especially the ML metrics parts, which is what made it different from more generic big-tech TPM loops. 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