Instinct Interview Guide for Noah Shinn’s AI Agent Startup
8 min read What Instinct’s interview loop likely looks like, what the agent team screens for, and how to check comp at a private-beta startup valued at $2.5B. Read article
Interview Prep
AI/ML Interview Questions
The prompt injection questions LLM security interviews keep asking
8 min read Prompt injection sits at the top of the OWASP LLM list because there’s no complete fix, and interviews for AI-security roles are built around what you actually do about that. Read article
AI/ML Interview Questions
What applied-AI engineer interviews test in 2026
6 min read The AI engineer loop stopped looking like a classic ML interview, and the RAG, agent, and evaluation rounds are where candidates get sorted. Read article
System Design
What the agent system design interview really tests
7 min read The agent design prompt is now standard in AI and infra loops, and it rewards candidates who reason about tool loops, memory, and failure instead of naming frameworks. Read article
Interview Prep
How Cognition hires the engineers behind Devin
6 min read Cognition’s engineering loop, the agent-infrastructure problems they put in front of you, and how to prepare for a team building autonomous coding agents. Read article
