Technical practice
How would you design a scalable planner–executor–judge architecture for a NeoCloud workflow?
What to coverThe posting calls for multi-agent architectures that automate engineering and business workflows. Preparation suggestion: Explain agent responsibilities, how state passes between them, and how you would limit loops and recover from failed steps.
How would you let an agent trigger node cordoning or hardware remediation safely?
What to coverThe role includes connecting agents to internal services, SaaS platforms and APIs for infrastructure actions. Preparation suggestion: Discuss authorization, action validation, idempotency and when an action should be blocked or escalated.
How would you use telemetry to detect and correct a system issue in real time?
What to coverThe posting describes agents that analyze telemetry and self-correct issues, and seeks knowledge of Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and hardware-level metrics. Preparation suggestion: Walk through signal selection, diagnosis, confidence in a proposed correction and verification that the system recovered.
How would you build an agent that generates or refactors production code?
What to coverCode generation and refactoring are stated duties, alongside production-grade Python and TypeScript expertise. Preparation suggestion: Explain how you would constrain changes, test behavior and review a proposed edit before it affects a running system.
How would you preserve agent context across a long-running infrastructure task?
What to coverThe role calls for short- and long-term agent memory and mentions Model Context Protocol (MCP). Preparation suggestion: Distinguish working state from durable history, and address stale context, resumability and access to sensitive information.
How would you ground an agent’s decision in telemetry using RAG?
What to coverThe posting explicitly calls for RAG pipelines using reliable data from telemetry and observability stacks. Preparation suggestion: Describe retrieval and freshness choices, how the agent cites or checks retrieved evidence, and what it should do when evidence is missing or contradictory.
How would you evaluate an agent using LLM-as-a-Judge without relying on it alone?
What to coverThe role calls for LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation and guardrails for performance, reliability and security compliance. Preparation suggestion: Discuss representative test cases, judge limitations, measurable outcomes and independent checks for unsafe actions.
How would you deploy and govern changes to an agentic system?
What to coverThe posting assigns company-wide Harness engineering practices for deployment, governance and lifecycle management, using CI/CD and feature flagging. Preparation suggestion: Explain staged rollout, regression checks, monitoring and rollback, including trade-offs between release speed and operational risk.
What changes when agents integrate with a Kubernetes platform control plane?
What to coverThe role involves collaboration with Kubernetes and Infrastructure Engineering teams to improve platform resilience. Preparation suggestion: Discuss reconciliation, distributed-system failure modes and boundaries on automated control-plane actions.
How would you run an agentic service reliably in a managed or cloud-native environment?
What to coverThe posting seeks experience deploying AI features in managed runtimes and cloud-native environments, including public or private clouds. Preparation suggestion: Cover service availability, scaling, observability and dependency failures without assuming a particular cloud provider is required.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you turned an ambiguous process into a reusable system.
What to coverThe posting seeks experience translating ambiguous business processes into robust, reusable AI logic. Preparation suggestion: Use a real situation, the steps you took to clarify the process and design a solution, and the resulting outcome.
Describe a time you coordinated with infrastructure specialists on a risky integration.
What to coverThe role explicitly involves collaboration with Kubernetes and Infrastructure Engineering teams. Preparation suggestion: Give a real situation, your actions to resolve differing priorities or ownership boundaries, and the result.
Tell me about a time you helped a team adopt an unfamiliar engineering approach.
What to coverThe posting seeks leadership and communication that bridge traditional software engineering and autonomous AI. Preparation suggestion: Describe a real situation, how you explained trade-offs and addressed concerns, and what changed as a result.
Describe a time you improved reliability after a production issue.
What to coverThe role emphasizes reliable software, observability and infrastructure resilience. Preparation suggestion: Use a real situation, your diagnostic and corrective actions, and the measured or observed result; distinguish your contribution from the team’s.
Tell me about a time you balanced delivery speed against operational risk.
What to coverThe posting describes a high-velocity engineering environment and calls for deployment governance and feature flagging. Preparation suggestion: Explain a real situation, the trade-off you made and safeguards you put in place, and the outcome.