The AI Engineer Interview Prep Sheet (From Founding AI Engineer)
60 real questions from real interview loops
I’m on the hiring side of AI engineer interviews. And most candidates are preparing for the wrong test — they grind LeetCode and memorize theory, then get asked to design an agent that won’t break in production.
So I put together a prep sheet: 60 questions pulled from real interview loops at Amazon, Microsoft, Scale AI, Goldman Sachs, LangChain, Mistral, and Databricks — organized in the same order you’d build a real AI system. LLM fundamentals, system design, agents, evals and guardrails, RAG, Python.
Take it, use it, send it to whoever has an interview coming up.
I’m also finishing a full video walking through every topic on this sheet — the real questions and the direction to take on each one. It goes up on my YouTube soon; subscribe here and I’ll send it when it’s live.
That’s what Becoming Agentic is — I write about AI engineering as I do the job: agents in production, what interviews actually test, what’s changing and what to do about it.