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xAI Exceptional Engineer (SWE) Interview Questions

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Trending Exceptional Engineer (SWE) interview questions at xAI

What is the project you are most proud of? Has video answer
+232 months ago60 answers
Implement LRU Cache.
+21a month ago34 answers
Design a file upload feature for an AI chat application.
a month ago1 answer
Design a rate limiter. Has video answer
+27 months ago13 answers
Design and implement an in-memory key-value store that supports set, transactional begin, commit, and abort operations.
a month ago1 answer
Design a task management system with tasks broken into sub-tasks.
7 months ago1 answer
Tell me about the accomplishment you are most proud of.
+17 months ago2 answers
Implement an iterator class that supports next, hasNext, getState, and setState, then extend it to treat a list of iterators as one continuous iterator with a global index.
a month ago
Given a large, partially implemented LLM/agentic codebase, identify the intended behavior and implement a missing function by reading and reasoning through the existing code, without explicit test cases or I/O specs.
a month ago
Why do you want to join an AI-first company?
a month ago

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