Interviews and careers

What a forward deployed engineer does, six frameworks for answering AI interview questions, and deep question banks with strong answers for AI product managers, forward deployed engineers, GenAI engineers, agentic AI engineers and AWS roles.

7 lessonsabout 73 minutesFive roles, frameworks, real depth

1. 1What is a forward deployed engineer? The FDE role, explainedWhat a forward deployed engineer (FDE) does, where the role came from, how it differs from a solutions architect, and why AI labs now hire FDEs.9 min · Beginner
2. 2How to answer AI interview questions: six frameworksSix frameworks for AI interview questions: design, good enough or not, wrong answers, cost, incidents and behavioural stories, each with a worked example.8 min · Intermediate
3. 3AI product manager interview questions, with frameworksTen deep AI product manager interview questions on AI judgement, design, metrics, evaluation, strategy, cost and leadership, each with a framework and answer.11 min · Advanced
4. 4Forward deployed engineer interview questions and answersTen forward deployed engineer (FDE) interview questions (discovery, demos, evaluation, debugging, design, handover and pushback) with strong answers.11 min · Advanced
5. 5GenAI engineer interview questions: RAG, evals and costTen deep GenAI engineer interview questions on RAG failures, evaluation, fine-tuning, latency, cost, prompt injection, structured output and memory.11 min · Advanced
6. 6Agentic AI engineer interview questions and answersTen agentic AI engineer interview questions: the agent loop, enforced limits, tool design, MCP security, multi-agent systems, evaluation and runaways.11 min · Advanced
7. 7AWS generative AI interview questions: Bedrock, AgentCoreTen AWS generative AI interview questions on Bedrock, AgentCore, Strands, Knowledge Bases, Guardrails, IAM, cost and resilience, with architecture answers.12 min · Advanced

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