“Typical ai application hiring pattern. Expect product critique and a practical build or case tied to the company product.”
5
stages
2–6 weeks
end to end
18
practice questions
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InMobi · San Mateo, CA

Staff AI Engineer
Coupang · Seattle, USA

AI/ML Engineer
Kaizen Labs · New York, NY
01
The interview, stage by stage
- 1
Recruiter screen30 min
AI product senseevaluationfull-stack executionPrepare one concrete example and one practice problem for AI product sense.
- 2
Portfolio/project deep dive60 min
evaluationfull-stack executionuser trustPrepare one concrete example and one practice problem for evaluation.
- 3
Product or coding exercise60 min
full-stack executionuser trustgrowthPrepare one concrete example and one practice problem for full-stack execution.
- 4
AI system/product design60 min
AI product senseevaluationfull-stack executionPrepare one concrete example and one practice problem for user trust.
- 5
Team panel240 min
evaluationfull-stack executionuser trustPrepare one concrete example and one practice problem for growth.
02
What decides the offer
AI product sense
25%
Uses specific evidence to demonstrate AI product sense.
Evaluation
20%
Uses specific evidence to demonstrate evaluation.
Full stack execution
20%
Uses specific evidence to demonstrate full-stack execution.
User trust
20%
Uses specific evidence to demonstrate user trust.
Growth
15%
Uses specific evidence to demonstrate growth.
They look hardest for AI product sense, evaluation, full-stack execution, user trust.
03
Your four weeks
Week 1
Company, product and role model
- ·Read current product/research material
- ·Map the role to three company problems
- ·Prepare a two-minute motivation narrative
Week 2
Core technical and product competencies
- ·Practice AI product sense
- ·Practice evaluation
- ·Practice full-stack execution
Week 3
Timed simulations
- ·Complete two timed exercises
- ·Run one system/product design mock
- ·Refine six behavioral stories
Week 4
Company-specific loop rehearsal
- ·Practice linked questions
- ·Rehearse project deep dive with adversarial follow-ups
- ·Prepare interviewer questions and logistics
04
Practice these
- How would you design an AI assistant for doctors?Recommended
- How would you launch an AI feature whose output cannot always be objectively graded?Recommended
- Design a production RAG system for ten million documents.Recommended
- How would you defend an LLM application against prompt injection?Recommended
- Design an agent that can safely call external tools.Recommended
- Offline evaluations improved but production metrics fell. What happened?Recommended
- How would you design multi-tenant retrieval without leaking customer data?Recommended
- Design a batching service for model inference.Recommended
- Design an account-research and personalization pipeline for 10,000 prospects.Recommended
- Design an enterprise architecture for using multiple model providers.Recommended
- How do you investigate a production incident involving unsafe model output?Recommended
- How should a team set release thresholds when safety metrics have uncertainty?Recommended
- Design a model router that balances quality, latency, and cost.Recommended
- How would you build a feedback loop without amplifying user bias or abuse?Recommended
- Design an AI coding assistant for a large enterprise codebase.Recommended
- Design memory for a long-running personal AI assistant.Recommended
- A model refuses too often after a safety update. How do you diagnose and fix it?Recommended
- Design a text-to-video generation system.Recommended
05
Where people slip
- !Generic motivation that could apply to any AI company
- !Buzzword-heavy answers without mechanisms
- !No measurable impact or personal ownership
- !Ignoring cost, latency, safety or operational constraints
- !Treating reported questions as a script rather than preparing underlying skills
06
Ask them this
- ?What distinguishes strong performance in the first six months?
- ?Which model, data or product constraint most limits the team today?
- ?How are research, product and engineering decisions resolved?
- ?How does the team evaluate AI quality before and after launch?
- ?What is the policy on AI-tool use during each interview stage?
