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  1. 1Implement a rate limiter for an LLM API.MediumCoding· 10 min· OpenAI
  2. 2Explain the trade-offs involved in model selection.MediumAI ML· 10 min· Microsoft
  3. 3Given click counts by domain, aggregate counts for every parent subdomain.MediumCoding· 10 min· Palantir
  4. 4How do you approach ambiguous or rapidly evolving problem spaces?MediumBehavioral· 10 min· Google DeepMind
  5. 5How do you get things done and prioritize projects in high ambiguity?MediumProductBehavioral· 10 min· OpenAI
  6. 6How do you prioritize and structure an AI product roadmap?MediumProduct· 10 min· Google DeepMind
  7. 7How would you handle conflicting opinions from two senior engineers?MediumBehavioral· 10 min· OpenAI
  8. 8How would you measure the success of a generative-AI product?MediumProductData· 10 min· Microsoft
  9. 9If you had to complete that project faster, what would you change?MediumProduct· 10 min· OpenAI
  10. 10Implement an NLP classifier using the IMDb dataset from Hugging Face.MediumCoding· 10 min· Truveta
  11. 11Tell me about a time you disagreed with management.MediumBehavioral· 10 min· OpenAI
  12. 12Tell me about an experiment you designed and ran.MediumDataProduct· 10 min· OpenAI
  13. 13Tell me about collaborating with engineers on an agentic-AI product.MediumBehavioral· 10 min· Scale AI
  14. 14Tell me about the last process you built from scratch.MediumBehavioral· 10 min· Clay
  15. 15Use the Cohere API to build a sample application.Medium· 10 min· Cohere
  16. 16What problem in the world do you most want to solve?MediumBehavioral· 10 min· Palantir
  17. 17A CRM has duplicates and inconsistent fields across systems. How do you repair it?MediumProduct· 10 min
  18. 18Accounts mergeMediumCoding· Google
  19. 19Asteroid CollisionMediumCoding· Amazon, Microsoft
  20. 20Explain a complex AI system to a nontechnical stakeholder and gain buy-in.MediumBehavioral· 10 min
  21. 21Explain quantization and its quality-performance trade-offs.Medium· 10 min
  22. 22Explain the core technical ideas behind AI developer platforms and where common intuitions fail.Medium· 10 min
  23. 23Explain the core technical ideas behind AI incident response and where common intuitions fail.Medium· 10 min
  24. 24Explain the core technical ideas behind AI watermarking and where common intuitions fail.Medium· 10 min