Agoda

Typical interview loop

How Agoda usually runs it for applied AI and LLM engineer roles.

1. 1

   Recruiter screen

   Focus: Background and logistics

   A short intro call on your background, interest in Agoda and logistics such as relocation.

2. 2

   Online assessment

   Focus: Algorithms under time pressure

   A timed online test with a few coding problems ranging from easy to hard.

3. 3

   DSA coding round

   Focus: Data structures, efficiency

   A live interview with two coding problems where an efficient solution is expected, not just a working one.

4. 4

   Platform round

   Focus: Stack depth, design to code

   A round on your main stack: a high-level design followed by hands-on building or code discussion, plus past work at scale.

5. 5

   System design

   Focus: Scalability and observability

   An architecture interview on scaling a system, its trade-offs, and how you'd monitor and maintain it.

6. 6

   Managerial and values round

   Focus: Experience, work style, values

   A conversation with a senior manager or leader about past experience, how you work, and fit with the team and company values.

Topics to prepare for Agoda

The topics its loop weighs most, each with what interviewers check and what to study.

• Python for ML interviewsCoding
• Calling LLM APIs in Python: async, streaming, retriesCoding
• GenAI system designSystem design
• Cost and latency engineering for LLM appsSystem design
• RAG vs fine-tuning vs prompting: choosing the approachSystem design
• Design an AI customer-support agentSystem design
• Design enterprise document search / a knowledge assistantSystem design
• Self-attention from scratchTransformers

How it weights your plan

Selecting Agoda when you build a plan multiplies each topic’s priority score: