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Interview process
A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn for the forward deployed engineering role. Pretty easy recruiter screen with typical questions. The next stage was a phone screen, where I was asked to describe a project I drove e2e and several customer-oriented questions. Was rejected for not showing enough backend experience in the interview.
- Recruiter screen
- Phone interview
Interview rounds
2 questions across 2 roundsRecruiter screen
1 questionSpecific questions asked
Have you used the OpenAI API before?
Phone interview
1 questionSpecific questions asked
Interview tips
They are looking for agentic architecture and have since leaned away from using deterministic methods in the architecture. My interviewer said they now try to "step out of the way and let the model do it's thing", so prepare a project accordingly.
Company culture
The recruiter and the interviewer were both very nice! Seems like a good place to work!
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