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Forward Deployed Engineering Interviews

Land your next role in forward deployed engineering (FDE) at top companies like Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and startups. Learn from mock interviews, frameworks, and advice from senior candidates. Perfect your system design, coding, and behavioral interviews.
Top FDE interview questions and answers
Interactive coding exercises with AI feedback
Full-length mock interviews & walkthroughs
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Taught by
Saurabh Shrivastava
Saurabh ShrivastavaHead of FDE, AWS
Kamesh Vedula
Kamesh VedulaFounding Senior FDE @ Rippling
Rajat Doshi
Rajat Doshiex-Palantir FDE
Vinoo Ganesh
Vinoo GaneshCEO at Kepler (ex-Palantir, Citadel)
Kevin Bai
Kevin BaiApplied AI at Anthropic (ex-Rippling FDE)
Stephen Chu
Stephen ChuDeployed Engineering at LangChain
Ivory Tang
Ivory TangFounder at Contour (ex-Cartesia FDE)
Rohan Jinturkar
Rohan JinturkarEngineering at OpenAI (ex-Palantir)
Interview prep trusted by 1M+ candidates who've landed jobs at
Anthropic
OpenAI
Google
Palantir
Amazon
Databricks
Salesforce
Microsoft
What you'll find in this course
9 courses
83 videos
67 hours

FDE Introduction

2 modules
6 lessons
4 videos
Learn what an FDE is, how the role differs across companies, and what their interview processes look like. Then figure out exactly what to prep for based on the interview process you're facing.

Decomposition Questions

2 modules
6 lessons
2 videos
Learn how to answer the most challenging round in the FDE loop: decomposition questions. Pioneered by Palantir (also known as open-ended questions) and now popular at other companies, these questions reward a specific way of thinking. Demystify what interviewers are looking for, and see how real FDEs answer these questions themselves.

Practical Coding Interviews

4 modules
13 lessons
3 videos
This course covers new practical and AI-assisted coding interviews, where engineers are expected to build, extend, and debug realistic codebases and work alongside coding agents.

Behavioral Questions for Forward-Deployed Engineers

4 modules
28 lessons
14 videos
A customer sits on the other side of most of the FDE job, so interviewers are deciding whether they can trust you in the room with one. We'll teach you the three question types and how to answer the customer-facing ones even if you've never held a customer-facing title.

Project Deep Dives for Forward-Deployed Engineers

4 lessons
A full 45 minutes on one project you already built, judged on technical depth as much as business impact. We'll show you how to pick the right project, structure your slides, and answer the follow-ups interviewers use to stump you.

Take-Home Assignments for Forward Deployed Engineers

Coming soon
Ace both the take-home and the presentation with our guide. Get guidance on when and how to use AI to enhance your work, plus the inside scoop on take-home assignments at popular companies.

System Design Interviews

11 modules
71 lessons
32 videos
Learn how to answer the latest system design questions across product, infrastructure, and AI domains. Features in-depth video examples, written breakdowns, and helpful reference patterns. Watch senior engineers and managers answer these questions in mock interview videos.

Software Engineering Coding Questions

15 modules
118 lessons
28 videos
Review fundamental SWE concepts to help you tackle programming problems with confidence. Master the key data structures and algorithms in a variety of real coding questions and expert videos.

Generative AI Interviews

4 modules
16 lessons
Ace your interviews at AI-first and AI-powered companies. Learn to explain how Gen AI really works, where it fails, and how to use it responsibly. Understand how top tech companies build and deploy AI products and how generative AI works in production, from LLMs and RAG systems to real-world deployment.

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