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.