#agents

26 agents interview questions, asked at Google, Amazon, Anthropic and 16 more companies. Last asked Oct 2026.

AI-agent security detection over streaming telemetryAI system designDesign a system in which an AI agent reads a stream of security telemetry and runs detections on it. About 1 TB of data arrives per day. It was asked like a traditional system…
Last asked Oct 2026
Design an LLM agent for production status, work orders and quotesAI system designPeople at a manufacturing business talk to an AI agent in plain language. It has to handle three kinds of request: report how far along an order or production job is, open a new…
Last asked Oct 2026
Design an enterprise research agent with internal and web sources and citationsAI system designAn employee asks a hard research question. Design the assistant that answers it by searching both the company's own systems (documents, wikis, a CRM such as Salesforce) and the…
Last asked Oct 2026
Replace a text game's heuristic logic with LLM callsCodingYou are handed a text game that runs in the terminal, with a few hundred lines of Python that make its decisions through hand-written rules. In a live session, swap that…
Last asked Sep 2026
Retrieve tables and notebooks for a data-aware coding agentAI system designAn internal coding agent helps employees write code and answer questions. When someone asks a data question, such as how a metric changed over some period, the agent first has to…
Last asked Sep 2026
Design durable execution for long-running agent queriesAI system designAn answer service runs each query in memory, but agentic queries can now take hours. Redesign it so a query keeps running and finishes after the browser disconnects, resumes after…
Last asked Sep 2026
Multi-step task with an LLM tool-use loopCodingIn a notebook with docs open, solve a multi-step problem by writing code that calls a language model as a building block: design the prompts and the loop that invokes tools and…
Last asked Sep 2026
Design a RAG question-answering agent over a firm's documentsAI system designDesign a system that answers questions from a large, private collection of documents (for example a law firm's memos) with retrieval-augmented generation, citing the passages it…
Last asked Sep 2026
Design a music recommender driven by an LLM agentAI system designDesign a music recommendation product in which an LLM agent talks with the listener and suggests songs or playlists. Cover how the agent reaches the listener's history and the…
Last asked Aug 2026
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Design a customer-service AI agent with tools and guardrailsAI system designYou built a small conversational agent with two tools for the take-home. Now design the real thing: a platform that runs AI agents for many consumer brands, over chat and voice…
Last asked Aug 2026
Design an evaluation platform for a design-editing AI agentAI system designAn AI agent edits design files on request. Design the platform that evaluates it: the test cases, how an edited design is judged (automatic checks, model graders, human review)…
Last asked Jul 2026
Design a scalable, safe agentic systemAI system designDesign an agent system and talk through its problems with the interviewer: how it extends to more tools and tasks, how you keep its actions safe, and what you do when an agent…
Last asked Jul 2026
Build a RAG agent on the Mistral API, then defend its designAI system designWrite a small Python tool that answers questions over a local folder of Markdown and PDF files with retrieval-augmented generation: ingest and chunk the files, embed and index the…
Last asked Jul 2026
Walk through an agent evaluation codebase for PDFsCodingYou are shown a codebase that evaluates an agent working over PDF documents. Walk the interviewer through it: how the pieces fit together, how the evaluation runs and is scored…
Last asked Jul 2026
Design a multi-agent document search and visualization productAI system designDesign a product in which several AI agents work together to search a large collection of documents and present what they find visually. Cover how the work is split among agents…
Last asked Jun 2026
Design an agent harness and its evaluation systemAI system designDesign the harness that runs an AI agent (the loop that calls the model, runs its tools and manages its context) together with the system that evaluates it. Cover how the agent…
Last asked Apr 2026
Design an AI agent rollout for a global enterpriseAI system designA forward-deployed engineering design round. A large global company wants to adopt AI agents across its business. Design the agent and how it gets rolled out: which work it takes…
Last asked Mar 2026
Design an agent workflow that produces a feature-length videoAI system designSketch how an agentic system could generate a coherent hour-long film from a short brief. Discuss how you break the work into scenes and shots, keep characters and story…
Last asked Feb 2026
Design a RAG assistant with agentic toolsAI system designDesign an assistant that answers questions with retrieval-augmented generation and can call tools to act or fetch more information. Cover indexing, retrieval and re-ranking, when…
Last asked Feb 2026
Design a multi-agent chat backendAI system designThe interviewer demos a ChatGPT-style product, then asks you to design its backend: a harness in which several agents work on one user request. Cover how a request is planned and…
Last asked Feb 2026
Design a computer-use agentAI system designDesign an agent that operates a computer the way a person does: it looks at the screen, decides the next action and clicks or types until a task is done. Cover how the model…
Last asked Jan 2026
Solve math questions with an LLM: tools and chainsAI system designHow would you build a system that answers math questions such as "what is 4 + 5?" or "what is the sum of 1 to 100?" with an LLM? Discuss when to let the model answer directly…
Last asked Jul 2025
Design a multi-agent system that redlines a contract against a playbookAI system designA law firm has a playbook of 30 to 80 rules for a contract type (liability caps, governing law, assignment, confidentiality terms). Given a counterparty's 50-page draft, produce a…
Design an evaluation harness for a customer-support AI agentAI system designA company's AI agent answers its customers over chat and takes actions through tools (refunds, plan changes, escalations). Every prompt, model, tool or policy change can break it…
Agentic RAG take-home projectCodingA take-home: build an agentic retrieval-augmented pipeline. A model with a search tool must answer questions over a document set, including questions that need more than one…
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Design an AI coding agent sandboxAI system designAgents run untrusted code for many users. Design isolated, fast-starting sandboxes with file and network controls.