Interview prep
AI Opportunity & Model Strategy Interview Questions
9 subtopics, 207 questions. All 207 carry a written answer.
Opportunity identification for AI
- What characteristics make a workflow a good candidate for AI? List five.
- Describe a method for finding AI opportunities inside an existing product without starting from the technology.
- How do you distinguish a problem AI solves from a problem AI merely touches?
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When NOT to use AI
- List five conditions under which you should reject an AI solution outright.
- Explain why a deterministic rules engine sometimes beats a model, with an example.
- A stakeholder wants AI to decide loan approvals. Make the case against.
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Build vs buy vs fine-tune decisions
- Lay out the decision tree for build, buy, prompt, retrieve or fine-tune.
- What conditions make buying a vendor solution the right call for an AI feature?
- Explain the strategic risk of building your core differentiator on a third-party model.
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Model selection from a PM lens
- What are the five dimensions a PM should compare models on before a product decision?
- Why is benchmark leaderboard position a weak input to model selection?
- Describe how you would build a model bake-off for your specific use case.
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Feasibility assessment and technical spikes
- What is a technical spike and how do you scope one for an AI feature?
- Design a two-week spike to test whether an AI feature is viable.
- What question should a feasibility spike answer, and what should it explicitly not try to answer?
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Data strategy as product strategy
- Explain why the data you collect today determines the products you can build in two years.
- What is a data flywheel and what are its preconditions?
- Describe how you would instrument a product to generate training or eval data as a byproduct.
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Roadmapping under model uncertainty
- How do you build a twelve-month roadmap when model capability in month six is unknown?
- Describe the difference between a capability bet and a feature commitment.
- What does a roadmap look like when it is organized by uncertainty rather than by quarter?
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Competitive analysis in fast-moving AI
- How do you run competitive analysis in a market where the landscape changes monthly?
- What is the difference between a competitor's feature and a competitor's advantage in AI?
- Describe how you would test a competitor's AI feature to find its real limitations.
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Evaluating AI vendors as a buyer
- List the ten questions you would ask every AI vendor before a pilot.
- How do you evaluate a vendor's quality claims without running your own eval?
- Design the pilot you would run to evaluate two competing AI vendors.
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