AI Interview Questions · ai-skills

Reference: Interview and Judgment · Beginner to Intermediate

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This topic is an interview bank for engineers who use AI tools. Each lesson groups questions by theme and gives what each question tests, a model answer with reasoning, follow-ups and common weak answers.

How to read each entry.

Each bank entry names what is tested, answers with reasoning, then verifies.

Lesson	What it covers
Tokens and context questions	Estimating tokens, context limits, and choosing what stays in context.
Cost estimation questions	Worked job cost from example prices, retries, and cost levers.
Prompting questions	Structured output, examples and reasoning, and debugging a flaky prompt.
Verification questions	Checking assistant output and handling secrets and untrusted content.
Agent questions	When an agent fits, bounding its loop, and approving side effects.
Guardrails and judgment questions	Permissions, human approval, and deciding under uncertainty.

Check yourself An interviewer asks for the cost of a job but gives no prices. What is the first line of a strong answer?

State example prices as explicit assumptions first. Real prices vary by provider and change, so no memorized figure counts; the formula plus substitution is the answer.

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