AI engineer candidate asks how teams structure Skills and MCPs in live coding interviews
Embarrassed_Cut_1008 · reddit · 2026-07-27
The poster is preparing for a one-hour live technical interview for an AI Engineer role at a large financial company, where they can use their preferred AI tool and are being evaluated on how they work with AI.
They ask for practical workflows covering:
- how to go from task intake to planning, implementation, testing, and final review
- which Skills and MCPs people actually use in day-to-day work
- whether a spec or plan is written before coding
- how to validate generated code instead of blindly accepting it
- what interviewers expect to see in an AI-assisted engineering task
The poster says they currently mostly use Codex/CC plus their own planning, and want a more structured, reliable process.
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