All 50 questions

  1. How would you design a real-time voice agent from audio input to spoken response, including latency and failures?

    Asked in 2 of 181 interviews · last asked Sep 29 · Design · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “Can you walk me through the end-to-end architecture of a real-time multimodal voice AI agent from microphone input to spoken response, including latency budgets and session degradation handling?”
    • “How would you design a telephone agent end to end, from an incoming call through generating a response?”

  2. How would you design an AI system to determine whether a site unit is ready for site acceptance testing, identify blockers, and provide the right contact?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 29 · Design · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “How would you design an AI system to assess a site unit's readiness for site acceptance testing?”
    • “How would you design a real-time AI system to determine whether a site unit is ready for site acceptance testing, identify blockers, and provide the right contact?”
    • “How would you build an AI system for a field engineer to check whether a site unit is ready for site acceptance testing?”

  3. What components would an agent-based system need to convert test scenarios into Playwright tests?

    Asked once · last asked Oct 8 · Design · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “How would you build an agent to convert test scenarios into Playwright tests?”
    • “How long might it take to build an agent that converts test scenarios into Playwright tests?”
    • “If agents could connect to a test management tool and convert scenarios into Playwright tests in tens of person-days, what would be wrong with that approach—or might nothing be wrong?”

  4. What should an AI phone agent do after dialing an insurer's 1-800 number and the call starts ringing?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Mid-level

  5. How would you design the tools and data pipeline for an AI scorecard agent?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 25 · Design · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “What model and overall architecture would you use for an AI scorecard agent?”

  6. How can you use an AI agent to speed up software testing?

    Asked once · last asked Oct 22 · Scenario · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “What challenges can arise when using an AI agent to speed up software testing?”

  7. How would you build an intelligent recommendation agent, and what technologies would you use?

    Asked once · last asked Apr 10 · Design · Mid-level

  8. How would you integrate an AI chatbot with a booking system?

    Asked once · last asked May 22 · Design · Mid-level

  9. Why might a candidate-screening agent use semantic analysis to shortlist resumes based on skills and a job description?

    Asked once · last asked Jun 9 · Concept · Mid-level

  10. How would you design an AI agent that processes high-level design documents and generates detailed designs and test cases, beyond relying on prompts and templates?

    Asked once · last asked Jun 25 · Design · Senior

  11. How would an AI sales agent trained on a retailer's products work?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Mid-level

  12. If a customer is unsure between two products, how should an AI sales agent help them decide?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Mid-level

  13. How would you design the end-to-end architecture for an AI sales workflow in a retail store?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Design · Mid-level

  14. What challenges does an AI sales agent face that a standard chatbot does not?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Concept · Mid-level

  15. Would you use Claude to make an automated phone call, and what factors would guide your choice?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Senior

  16. Walk me through the expected flow of an AI agent calling an insurer to report a car accident.

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Design · Senior

  17. What should happen when an AI agent calls the insurer's customer service number on a car insurance card?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Mid-level

  18. What failure modes should an AI phone agent anticipate when trying to reach the correct insurer or claims adjuster extension?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Senior

  19. How should an AI phone agent handle a call that goes to voicemail?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Mid-level

  20. If an insurer does not provide a callback after an AI agent reaches voicemail, how should the system follow up?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Scenario · Senior

  21. How would you design a custom solution to further automate voice-agent setup?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 21 · Design · Mid-level

  22. What makes a ticket automation tool agentic, and how can it connect to tools and resolve issues autonomously?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 22 · Concept · Mid-level

  23. Can you explain the architecture of an AI-powered calling and SMS system, including the caller experience and which components make each decision?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 26 · Design · Senior

  24. In a Retell integration, what does the worker control, and what does Retell control?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 27 · Concept · Mid-level

  25. How would you approach building a system where an agent gets the customer's name from a CRM by phone number before calling?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 28 · Design · Mid-level

  26. What components would you include in an MCP-based AI QA agent framework built from scratch?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 30 · Design · Senior

  27. How would you design an AI agent to research potential MVNO prospects for outbound marketing?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 4 · Scenario · Senior

  28. How would you design the architecture for a ticket-handling AI agent?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 7 · Design · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “What component flow would you use for a ticket-handling AI agent system?”

  29. How would you integrate agentic SDLC automation tools into modernization programs that combine legacy and newer technology stacks?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 19 · Design · Senior

  30. How are internal assistant agents built in practice, and what works versus quietly fails?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 22 · Design · Senior

  31. Can you walk through how an agentic AI restaurant search system would actually work?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 25 · Design · Mid-level

  32. How do you structure the observation-action loop to handle the dynamic quiz elements in a browser agent built with Playwright?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 25 · Scenario · Senior

  33. How would you structure the observation-action loop in an autonomous browser to handle dynamic page elements, dynamic loading, and shadow DOMs?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 25 · Behavioral · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “How did you structure the observation-action loop to handle dynamic page elements, dynamic loading, and shadow DOMs in an autonomous browser project?”

  34. How would you build an AI chatbot for college students that handles tasks and practice recommendations?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 5 · Design · Mid-level

  35. How would you design an AI agent for a specific business task, build its pipeline, and ensure it operates reliably?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 8 · Design · Mid-level

  36. Pick one substantial project or engineering task where an AI agent played a meaningful role, and walk me through it end to end.

    Asked once · last asked Sep 8 · Behavioral

  37. How would you design a chatbot that uses RAG and can also trigger other actions?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 10 · Design · Senior

  38. How would you implement LLM tool calling for property search and lead capture in a real estate chatbot, and what challenges would you anticipate?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 21 · Scenario · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “How did you implement LLM tool calling for property search and lead capture in a real estate chatbot, and what challenges did you encounter?”

  39. How would you approach the technical setup for an AI-driven CRM and agent solution?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 29 · Design · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “How are you approaching the technical setup for an AI-driven CRM and agent solution?”

  40. In a senior setup, how would you ground an LLM or agent in the actual gameplay state machine, inputs, and interrupt rules so it generates valid automatable tests, and what artifacts and integration points would you use?

    Asked once · last asked Oct 9 · Design · Senior

  41. What voice-generation or speech-to-speech models could you use to build voice agents?

    Asked once · last asked Oct 13 · Concept · Mid-level

  42. What challenges have you faced building autonomous agents that verify workflows against acceptance criteria, and how did you overcome them?

    Asked once · last asked Oct 14 · Behavioral · Senior

  43. How would you build an AI agent with React, from end to end?

    Asked once · last asked Oct 21 · Design · Senior

  44. How would you use AI tools, skills, and agents in a software testing project?

    Asked once · last asked Oct 22 · Behavioral · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “How have you used AI tools, skills, and agents in a software testing project?”

  45. What are the main technical challenges in building an AI system that makes insurance calls?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 16 · Design · Senior

    Other ways it was asked
    • “What other factors should you consider when designing an AI system to make insurance calls?”

  46. How long would it take to build a simple web application with an LLM layer, tools, and a database?

    Asked once · last asked Jul 23 · Scenario · Mid-level

  47. Which components of a ticket-handling agent system would use the conventional database?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 7 · Design · Mid-level

  48. What is agentic ticketing?

    Asked once · last asked Aug 7 · Concept · Junior

  49. What recent Power BI agent capabilities are relevant to BI developers, and how could they be used?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 9 · Concept · Mid-level

  50. What are the main components of a telephone agent?

    Asked once · last asked Sep 29 · Concept · Mid-level

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181 interviews, 116 candidates, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026. Updated every month with new interviews.