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9fin AI Engineer Interview Questions

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Generative AI & LLMsStart here. 8 questions · ~91 min
Explain Vector Search in RAGMedium

Design a grounded document Q&A system and explain how vector search improves retrieval quality, latency, and hallucination control in RAG.

Vector SearchPrompt EngineeringRAG99fin
Evaluate an LLM SystemMedium

Explain how to evaluate a generative model using offline and online methods, with attention to hallucination, product metrics, and experiment design.

HallucinationPrompt EngineeringLLM Evaluation99fin
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System Design3 questions · ~34 min
Design an LLM Serving PlatformHard

Design an LLM serving system that balances latency, cost, scalability, and safety for production traffic.

Cold StartFeature StoreModel Serving99fin
Cost-Efficient LLM ServingHard

Design an LLM serving platform that balances inference cost, latency, quality, reliability, and user experience.

inference latencyuser experienceModel Serving99fin
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Coding4 questions · ~46 min
Entity Extraction to SchemaMedium
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Use compiled regular expressions to extract, normalize, deduplicate, and map entities from financial documents to a schema.

deduplicationclean codeAlgorithms99fin
Concurrent Document ParsingMedium
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Parse many documents concurrently, compute normalized word statistics, and preserve input order efficiently.

data processingasync processingasynchronous99fin
Graph Traversal or DP ProblemMedium
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Use bidirectional BFS to find the shortest valid word transformation sequence.

Dynamic ProgrammingbfsAlgorithms99fin
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Behavioral & Leadership4 questions · ~46 min
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More topics1 question · ~11 min
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