I'd love to help you prep for this role! Let's make sure we customize this prep exactly to the team's expectations.

To get our roadmap dialed in, what is the format and timeline of your upcoming interview (e.g., is it focused on AI system design, live coding/building, behavioral, or a portfolio review)? Also, how much hands-on experience do you have building with LLMs or RAG pipelines so far?

It is completely fine if you are new to the hands-on GenAI stack! Since your interview features a portfolio review, we can focus our strategy on designing and explaining a highly relevant conceptual architecture, showing that you thoroughly understand the engineering trade-offs even while you build up your coding skills.

To make sure your portfolio review stands out, we have two excellent options. We can either take an existing software project of yours and discuss how to inject a smart GenAI feature into it, or we can design a modern, end-to-end blueprint for a classic system, like a high-performance Retrieval-Augmented Generation platform.

Before we build our game plan around one of these options, let's nail down your specific timeline so we can budget our study and design sessions effectively.

Nailing down your timeline is a perfect starting point, as it dictates how we should budget our preparation.

To design the most effective study schedule, I have a quick question about your timeline and constraints.