Senior AI Interviews Don't Ask for Definitions—They Ask What to Do When Systems Blow Up in Production
imlaleeth · reddit · 2026-09-02
Drawing on experience from both sides of the table as interviewer and candidate, the author points out that most AI/LLM interview prep materials on the market stay at the level of 'define RAG' or 'explain embeddings,' which is nothing like what senior-level interviews actually look like. Real interview questions resemble production incident post-mortems:
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