Technical practice
How would you design an LLM-powered chatbot or copilot from request to response?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Explain how you would connect an application to an LLM service, manage conversation context, and expose the result to users. Discuss when retrieval or other application logic would be needed rather than relying on the model alone.
How would you improve prompts for a content-generation task?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Describe an iterative approach using clear instructions, representative test cases, and checks for output quality. Explain how you would compare prompt changes while watching for regressions.
How would you build and troubleshoot a retrieval-augmented generation pipeline?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Walk through preparing source content, retrieving relevant passages, and supplying them as context to the model. Distinguish retrieval failures from generation failures when an answer is inaccurate or unsupported.
What choices affect embedding-based semantic search?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Explain what embeddings represent and how content preparation and similarity search affect retrieval quality. Discuss practical trade-offs when integrating a vector database such as FAISS, Pinecone, or Weaviate, without assuming one is required.
How would you evaluate an LLM application before and after a change?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Propose task-relevant test cases and criteria for answer quality, including whether answers use retrieved context appropriately. Explain how you would compare results and examine failures rather than relying on a single score.
When would you consider fine-tuning instead of prompt optimization or RAG?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Compare the problems each approach can address and the data, evaluation, and maintenance effort involved. Fine-tuning open-source models is listed as good to have, so treat model-specific experience as optional.
How would you implement a Python REST API for a GenAI service?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Cover request validation, calls to an LLM service, error handling, and a clear response contract. Explain how you would separate API and application logic in a maintainable backend or microservice.
Which transformer and NLP concepts help explain LLM application behavior?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Explain tokens, context limits, and the role of transformer attention at a practical level. Connect those concepts to choices about input length, retrieved context, and output quality.
How would you choose what to handle in an LLM framework versus application code?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Use LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Haystack as an example of a framework named in the posting. Discuss the benefits of reusable retrieval or orchestration components against the need for transparent, testable application logic.
How would you improve the scalability, security, and performance of a deployed GenAI application?
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Consider response latency, service capacity, access to data, and handling of sensitive inputs or outputs. Explain how you would measure the issue and weigh improvements; cloud platforms, containers, and LLMOps are good-to-have topics, not assumed requirements.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you coordinated with product, data, or AI/ML colleagues to deliver a technical feature.
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Use a real situation, your specific actions to resolve differing needs, and the result. Make the collaboration concrete without claiming a GenAI project if your example came from another area.
Describe a time you investigated a quality or performance problem in an application.
What to coverPreparation suggestion: State what users or measurements revealed, how you isolated the cause, and what changed as a result. An example from software or ML work can show a troubleshooting approach relevant to this role.
Tell me about a time feedback caused you to revise a technical solution.
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Explain the original goal, the feedback you received, and the changes you made. End with the observed result or what you learned if the outcome was mixed.
Describe a time you balanced delivery speed with a security or reliability concern.
What to coverPreparation suggestion: Give the situation, the trade-off you identified, the action you took, and the result. Keep the example grounded in your actual work rather than implying experience with a particular GenAI deployment.