Frontier AI Technical Interview Question Bank

Topic tags
Python
Communication

Reported interview periodNov 2025–Jun 2026

Implement a Versioned Recipe Manager

Build an in-memory recipe service with unique names, search, users, and rollback.

Practice focusRecipe IDs and names are unique; name comparison and search are case-insensitive while original casing is preserved. Returned recipes must be defensive copies. Search results sort by ingredient count and then recipe ID. Successful adds and edits append immutable, one-based versions. IDs and names are nonempty strings; ingredients are lists of strings, preserving order and repetitions. Name uniqueness and substring search compare Python-style lowercase strings, without trimming or accent normalization. An empty search query matches every recipe.…

Public brief

Topic tags
Python
Storage & state
Communication

AnthropicCoding

Python codingWebAssembly + public tests

Reported interview periodMay 2026

Implement a Task Manager with Expiration and Historical Views

Tasks are scoped by (user, task_id). Implement creation, mutation, TTL expiration, and snapshots.

Practice focusRequirements - A task key can be created only once, even if the task later completes or expires. - Only live incomplete tasks can be updated or completed. - TTL is anchored at creation; a task is absent at and after created at + ttl , and updates do not refresh it. - Current lists contain live incomplete titles ordered by task ID. - A historical list includes all events at or before the requested timestamp and applies expiration relative to that historical time. - Calls arrive in nondecreasing command time, though historical query times may be earlier.…

Public brief

Topic tags
Python
Algorithms
Data structures
Product design
Communication

Coding exerciseCodingAI-generated

Runnable coding45 min

Reported interview periodN/A

Interval calendar

Reason about half-open intervals through conflicts, room counts, merging, and free slots.

Practice focusPython, Sorting, Intervals, Heaps, Edge cases through a runnable coding exercise.

Frontier AI technical interview question bank.

Frontier AI technical interview question bank.

Implement a Versioned Recipe Manager

Implement a Task Manager with Expiration and Historical Views

Interval calendar

Implement a Versioned Recipe Manager

Implement a Task Manager with Expiration and Historical Views

Interval calendar