Interview questions

24 questions

If Spotify were integrating Sierra for its customer support chatbot, what would that technical system look like?

System designPM

Mastercard4w ago

Design an AI agent for a streaming service.

productPM

Amazon1mo ago

Tell me about a time when you had to deal with conflicting priorities with your stakeholders and how you secured alignment with them.

BehavioralPM

Sierra AI1mo ago

Implement a function to traverse cell dependencies in an Excel-like spreadsheet and detect circular references between cells.

TechnicalSWE

Sierra AI5mo ago

Design an agentic AI system to power customer support for Spotify.

productPM

Sierra AI1mo ago

Here’s a user-journey flowchart, the command-line output at each step, and the code. Can you identify the bugs causing the errors and fix them?

Technical

Sierra AI5mo ago

Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.

TechnicalSWE

Sierra AI5mo ago

How would you create a short-term roadmap when production issues, sales pressure, and customer demands conflict?

BehavioralPM

Sierra AI1mo ago

Build your own customer service AI agent for a hypothetical outdoors company.

TechnicalSWE

Sierra AI1mo ago

With one engineer and one week, how would you prioritize competing demands from multiple enterprise customers?

BehavioralPM

Sierra AI1mo ago

A large enterprise customer wants to integrate Sierra, what would you build first and why?

BehavioralPM

Sierra AI5mo ago

Explain how RAG works.

BehavioralSWE

Sierra AI5mo ago

Given a nested merchandise catalog dictionary, extract attributes for a specific item and traverse related items recursively to build the full relationship tree.

TechnicalPM

Sierra AI5mo ago

Why do you want to work at Sierra AI?

BehavioralPM

Sierra AI5mo ago

A key metric is declining—what would you investigate first and how would you prioritize what to build?

productPM

Sierra AI1mo ago

Debug and extend a Python codebase by adding an async exponential retry mechanism with timeouts and backoff so failures are retried until success.

TechnicalPM

Sierra AI5mo ago

Design an AI system that integrates with a third-party company’s data and workflows.

productPM

Anthropic1mo ago

Tell me about a project you worked on.

BehavioralSWE

Interview questions

Tell me about yourself.

What is the project you are most proud of?

If Spotify were integrating Sierra for its customer support chatbot, what would that technical system look like?

Design an AI agent for a streaming service.

Tell me about a time when you had to deal with conflicting priorities with your stakeholders and how you secured alignment with them.

Implement a function to traverse cell dependencies in an Excel-like spreadsheet and detect circular references between cells.

Design an agentic AI system to power customer support for Spotify.

Here’s a user-journey flowchart, the command-line output at each step, and the code. Can you identify the bugs causing the errors and fix them?

Given an m x n grid of characters board and a string word, return true if word exists in the grid.

How would you create a short-term roadmap when production issues, sales pressure, and customer demands conflict?

Build your own customer service AI agent for a hypothetical outdoors company.

With one engineer and one week, how would you prioritize competing demands from multiple enterprise customers?

A large enterprise customer wants to integrate Sierra, what would you build first and why?

Explain how RAG works.

Given a nested merchandise catalog dictionary, extract attributes for a specific item and traverse related items recursively to build the full relationship tree.

Why do you want to work at Sierra AI?

A key metric is declining—what would you investigate first and how would you prioritize what to build?

Debug and extend a Python codebase by adding an async exponential retry mechanism with timeouts and backoff so failures are retried until success.

Design an AI system that integrates with a third-party company’s data and workflows.

Tell me about a project you worked on.