Understand and articulate what a role requires in the context of the team's real world operations. This includes the team structure and reporting lines, typical day to day responsibilities, how the role contributes to product goals, key success metrics and service level agreements, current team challenges and technical or process debt, tooling and workflows, collaboration patterns with product, design, sales, support and engineering, expectations for mentoring or ownership, test and quality strategies where relevant, and what success looks like in the first six to twelve months. Candidates should be prepared to ask informed, practical clarifying questions about team priorities, measurement, handoffs, reporting rhythms, and immediate problems the role will address.
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Before taking ownership of a supervised learning pipeline, list 10 clarifying questions you would ask about data governance, lineage, labeling, access controls, and monitoring. Organize them under headings: Data Ingestion, Labeling Process, Storage & Access, and Monitoring & Alerts, and briefly explain why each question is important for safe operation.
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Describe a time you negotiated technical scope with product or design to match data limitations or compute constraints. What options did you propose, what did you compromise on, and what was the final outcome? Focus on the data-driven reasoning and communication tactics you used.
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Describe, in the context of a product-focused AI team, what you understand an AI Engineer's core responsibilities to be. Include a typical day-to-day breakdown (morning, mid-day, afternoon), which stakeholders (product, design, backend, SRE, data teams) you interact with and why, and one concrete example of how your work directly moves product goals such as improved retention, increased conversion, or reduced infrastructure cost.
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A product manager requests an ambitious AI feature with an aggressive timeline. Describe how you'd produce a realistic timeline and resource estimate for 6 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months. List the assumptions you would state explicitly (data availability, labeling needs, infra access, user testing), and explain how you'd handle schedule uncertainty.
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Build a 2-3 year career growth plan for an AI Engineer aiming to reach Staff level. Include technical and soft skills to develop, project types and ownership opportunities to seek, visibility activities (papers, talks, cross-team projects), mentoring responsibilities, and measurable milestones for each 6-month period.
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