# Tell me about a client-facing experience. | Aced Aced (formerly Exponent) publishes a public search API over its indexed pages; the guide is at https://www.aced.io/agents/agent-access. Source: https://www.aced.io/questions/7114/describe-client-facing-experience Source observed: 2026-11-04T22:49:37.140Z Last checked: 2026-11-04T22:49:37.14+00:00 Indexed: 2026-11-06T00:03:00.48+00:00 --- # Tell me about a client-facing experience. Aced (formerly Exponent) provides interview-preparation courses, practice tools, interview experiences, and community questions. This Behavioral and Customer Interaction question concerns client-facing experience for **Forward Deployed Engineer** roles. It has **2 shared interview experiences** and no community answers yet. ## Interview experiences ### Stripe — Forward Deployed Engineer **Reported 5 months ago** · [Read the full Stripe interview experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/stripe-forward-deployed-engineer-interview-5498d0) > “This was a really quick process for me: recruiter chat, two technical phone screens, then four final-round interviews. The early rounds covered broad web-dev fundamentals, debugging, and a small API-to-UI coding task that later got expanded in the onsite. The final loop felt more performative than most because there was clearly a hidden rubric beyond just solving the prompt, especially around communication, customer instincts, and how I use AI while coding. The coding round explicitly allowed AI, but they seemed to care much more about whether I could break work down, steer the model, and review it critically than whether I could one-shot a solution. The behavioral side also cared a lot about why Stripe and whether I really wanted a customer-facing role like this.” ### Databricks — Forward Deployed Engineer · Entry Level / L3 **Reported 9 months ago** · [Read the full Databricks interview experience](https://www.aced.io/experiences/databricks-forward-deployed-engineer-interview-51f23a) > “I got an offer for Databricks FDE, and the loop felt very structured but also pretty different from a normal SWE interview. Mine was fully remote, and the stages were recruiter, a rapid-fire technical screen, a separate practical coding round, a decomp round, and then leadership. The coding itself was not absurd LeetCode, which I appreciated. The most important round was decomp, where I had to treat the interviewer almost like a client and clarify stakeholder, scope, and KPI before touching architecture. The whole process felt like they were testing whether I could own an end-to-end enterprise solution fast.” ## Community answers No answers have been contributed by the community yet. 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