Technical practice
How would you design a full-stack AI application for an internal business function?
What to coverThe posting calls for full-stack development and practical AI applications for IT and other functions. Suggested preparation: explain how you would divide responsibilities across the interface, application services and AI component, and how you would judge whether the design meets a business need.
When would you use a microservice rather than add an API to an existing application?
What to coverThe posting names API and microservices development. Suggested preparation: discuss service boundaries, integration needs and the trade-off between independent deployment and operational complexity.
How would you design and deploy an AI application for global scale?
What to coverThe posting emphasizes cloud-native deployment and globally scalable solutions. Suggested preparation: address capacity, reliability and deployment considerations without assuming a particular cloud platform.
How would you decide whether an agentic AI approach fits a use case?
What to coverThe posting specifically mentions exploring agentic AI capabilities. Suggested preparation: compare an agentic workflow with a simpler application flow, including where autonomy helps and where controls or human review would be prudent.
How would you evaluate whether an AI initiative creates measurable business value?
What to coverThe posting calls for impactful initiatives with measurable business value. Suggested preparation: connect a defined business problem to outcome measures, and distinguish those outcomes from technical performance measures.
How would you integrate an AI solution with enterprise systems and data sources?
What to coverEnterprise integration is an explicit capability in the posting. Suggested preparation: explain how you would handle interfaces, access to data and failures between systems while avoiding assumptions about Xerox’s specific systems.
What data preparation would you do before using enterprise data in an AI application?
What to coverThe posting names data engineering and transformation. Suggested preparation: cover data quality, transformation and validation, including how errors in source data could affect the application.
How would you use CI/CD and automation when delivering an AI-enabled application?
What to coverThe posting lists DevOps, CI/CD and automation practices. Suggested preparation: describe useful build, test and deployment checks, and how you would detect a problem after a change.
What secure-development concerns would you address in an enterprise AI application?
What to coverSecure software development is explicitly listed. Suggested preparation: discuss appropriate access controls, protection of sensitive data and validation at application and integration boundaries.
How would you debug a failure that crosses the application, an API and an AI component?
What to coverThe posting calls for strong debugging skills across development, integrations and AI-enabled solutions. Suggested preparation: describe a method for isolating the failing layer, gathering evidence and verifying the fix.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you owned delivery across competing initiatives.
What to coverThe posting emphasizes ownership and execution across multiple concurrent initiatives. Suggested preparation: use a real situation, your prioritization and communication actions, and the result; explain any trade-offs you made.
Describe a time you worked with product, architecture and business stakeholders on a technical decision.
What to coverWorking directly with those stakeholder groups is stated in the posting. Suggested preparation: give the situation, how you reconciled differing needs, and the resulting decision or delivery outcome.
Tell me about a time you explored an emerging technology but had to decide whether to use it.
What to coverThe posting values curiosity and experimentation alongside practical delivery. Suggested preparation: describe the situation, how you tested usefulness and risks, and what decision followed; an example need not involve agentic AI.
Describe a time an Agile or SAFe delivery plan had to change.
What to coverAgile and SAFe delivery experience is listed in the posting. Suggested preparation: use a real situation, your actions with the team when priorities or constraints shifted, and the effect on delivery.
Tell me about a difficult technical problem you diagnosed and resolved.
What to coverThe posting calls for debugging and problem-solving skills. Suggested preparation: explain the symptoms and context, the evidence you used to narrow the cause, your actions and the result.