
Agent Engineer Interview Guide
What agent engineer interviews are likely to test, read from live postings: agent design, testing, debugging and coding with AI tools, plus practice prompts.
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Module 1, Define the boundaries: send a request, parse its response and test API failures.

Roles for people who build with AI: what each job involves, where to start reading, and who is hiring.

Lists of the accounts, newsletters, blogs, channels, communities and tools worth following, each with the date it was last checked.
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What agent, AI and ML engineers each own, and how to tell which job a posting really describes, read from live postings in September 2026.

The rounds an AI account executive loop tends to run, what AI postings add to each, and eight original prompts to practice out loud.

Import a tested n8n workflow that validates extracted invoice fields and routes exceptions to review, then swap in Gmail, Datalab and Sheets.

How Claude Code and Codex load project instruction files, what belongs in them, and a worked AGENTS.md for a small Next.js repo.

Codex, Claude Code and Cursor compared from their docs: how each would handle one disclosed task, their guardrails, and plan prices checked September 2026.

Install Marker, convert a PDF, read the output, then do the same through the Datalab API. Every command comes from the official READMEs and docs.