#tool use

7 tool use interview questions, asked at Google, Anthropic, Decagon and 4 more companies. 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
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
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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 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
Design an agent that investigates support tickets automaticallyAI system designDesign an AI agent that picks up incoming support or on-call tickets and investigates them before a human does: it reads the ticket, gathers evidence from logs, dashboards, code…
Last asked Apr 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
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