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Team Fit and Culture Questions

Focuses on alignment with the specific team's mission, norms, engineering practices, and customer focus. Interviewers assess whether a candidate's working habits, collaboration style, testing and quality expectations, and approach to ownership and feedback match the immediate team. Candidates should be able to reference team rituals and decision making processes, describe how their prior work maps to the team's priorities and customers, and propose pragmatic first priorities or improvements. Good answers combine technical or domain substance with awareness of team dynamics and how success is measured at the team level.

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Describe specific steps you would take to create and maintain psychological safety on an AI team so individuals can raise mistakes, model concerns, or ethical issues without fear. Give concrete rituals, language, and escalation paths you'd recommend.
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Two senior engineers strongly disagree about architecture for a latency-sensitive inference service: one proposes a heavy attention-based model, the other a simpler model with caching. As team lead, describe how you'd resolve the dispute, including experiments to run, acceptance criteria, timeline, and steps to preserve team cohesion.
EasyTechnical
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How do you measure individual and team success for an AI engineering team that builds inference services? Recommend a balanced set of metrics including technical (latency, availability), product (conversion lift), and engineering health (MTTR, experiment velocity), and explain why you chose them.
MediumTechnical
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How would you prioritize technical debt in an ML codebase where retraining a full model takes days and developers are blocked frequently? Propose prioritization criteria and a roadmap to reduce blocking debt while preserving feature delivery.
EasyTechnical
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Provide a concise checklist you would use to decide whether a research prototype or model is production-ready. Include reproducibility, test coverage, latency, cost, privacy/compliance, monitoring, and rollback plans in your checklist.

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