05How would you grow weekly active users of an AI coding tool tenfold in a year?▼hard★ EssentialNewAnthropicCursorReplitunlockedTenfold growth is not an optimisation problem. The interviewer wants to see you find new users the product does not serve today, and protect reliability and margins while doing it.Practise this question →Read answer →
40We turned on an AI code reviewer that comments on every pull request. How do you tell whether it catches real problems or just adds noise?▼hardNewAtlassianGoogleMicrosoft◆ premiumPublished systems measure whether comments lead to code changes, aim for a precision target and filter non-actionable comments. Compare against human comments, seed known bugs for recall and run a randomised rollout.Practise this question →Read answer →
33Our engineers say the coding agent makes them 20% faster. Before we buy 2,000 more licences, how do you find out if that's true?▼hardNewMicrosoftGoogle◆ premiumIn one randomised trial, developers believed AI made them 20% faster while it made them 19% slower. Run staggered access on real work, measure time to merge and defects, and renew team by team.Practise this question →Read answer →
37Our hosted evaluations product for API customers has low adoption. Keep investing, partner with an open-source tool, or shut it down?▼hardNewOpenAIGoogleAmazon◆ premiumOne major provider wound down its evals product and pointed customers to an open-source tool; others keep investing. Decide based on whether evals drive model usage, and on whether customers want evaluation tied to one vendor.Practise this question →Read answer →