Technical practice
How would you turn a client’s business problem into an AI use case and delivery roadmap?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Explain how you would clarify the problem, users, available data and desired business outcome before choosing an approach. Cover feasibility, dependencies and milestones from development through deployment and adoption.
When would you recommend an LLM application, a RAG system or an agentic workflow?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Compare the need for generated responses, retrieval from source material and multi-step actions. Explain how complexity, reliability and governance constraints would affect the choice.
How would you design and evaluate a RAG-based solution for a client?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Discuss source-data suitability, retrieval quality and how retrieved material supports an answer. Describe how you would test failures and use feedback to improve the solution.
How would you improve prompts in an LLM application?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Explain how you would define the intended task and assess responses against consistent examples. Address the trade-off between improving prompts and changing the underlying data or solution design.
How would you decide whether an agentic workflow is appropriate?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Identify the actions the workflow needs to take and where human review may be appropriate. Explain how you would weigh added capability against complexity, reliability and enterprise governance needs.
What would you assess when planning deployment of an AI solution on Azure or AWS?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Discuss architecture fit, scalability, data requirements and deployment constraints rather than assuming a particular cloud service. Explain how those trade-offs could affect the roadmap and client recommendation.
How would you check that an AI solution aligns with enterprise data, architecture and governance requirements?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Explain how you would establish relevant requirements with client and technical stakeholders before deployment. Describe how you would resolve a conflict between a proposed capability and those requirements.
How would you measure whether a deployed AI solution is succeeding?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Distinguish solution performance, user adoption and business impact, as the posting calls for all three. Explain how real-world feedback would guide iteration after deployment.
How would you manage delivery risks across several AI workstreams?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Describe how you would track timelines, budgets, dependencies and risks across data, engineering, design and business teams. Explain how you would assess and communicate the effect of a change on delivery commitments.
How would you shape a feasible AI solution approach for a client proposal?
What to coverSuggested preparation: Connect the client problem to a proposed approach, delivery roadmap and measurable outcome. Explain how you would communicate assumptions and trade-offs to senior leadership without overstating feasibility.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you brought clarity to an ambiguous client problem.
What to coverSuggested preparation: Give the situation, the actions you took to structure the problem and align stakeholders, and the result. Focus on how that clarity informed a practical solution or next step.
Describe a time you coordinated a distributed, cross-functional delivery team.
What to coverSuggested preparation: Set out the situation, your actions to manage handoffs and dependencies across teams, and the result. Distinguish your contribution from the work of other team members.
Tell me about a time a delivery risk threatened a timeline or budget.
What to coverSuggested preparation: Describe the situation, how you assessed and communicated the risk, what you did, and the result. Be clear about any trade-off you made and what evidence informed it.
Describe a time you explained a technical trade-off to a client or business stakeholder.
What to coverSuggested preparation: Explain the situation, how you made the options and constraints understandable, and the resulting decision. Highlight how you checked that stakeholders understood the implications.
Tell me about a time you helped move a solution from deployment toward adoption.
What to coverSuggested preparation: Describe the situation, your actions to gather user feedback or address adoption barriers, and the result. If applicable, explain how you measured whether the change improved use or business impact.