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FDE Interviews

Forward deployed engineering

Practical preparation for engineers who turn complex technology into real-world outcomes. Real interview questions, the engineering behind the answers, and systems you can build and debug in the browser.

Visit fdeinterviews.com Included in the All-Access Pass
The FDE Interviews home page with its free readiness diagnostic
  • 678worked interview questions
  • 176lessons in 5 courses
  • 210video lessons
  • 30hands-on FDE Lab missions
  • 201research papers explained
  • 112company interview guides

Counted from the published library on 9 November 2026.

Built for

Who it prepares.

  • Forward Deployed Engineer
  • Forward Deployed Software Engineer
  • Applied AI Engineer
  • Solutions or sales engineers moving across
  • ML engineers moving into deployment
Covers

What it goes deep on.

  • LLMs & RAG
  • Agents & tool use
  • Evaluation
  • GPUs & accelerators
  • MLOps, DevOps & SRE
  • AI security & safety
  • System design
  • Coding
  • ML & data science
  • Behavioral & customer rounds
  • Training & fine-tuning
  • Inference & serving
  • Cloud, Kubernetes & infrastructure

A dedicated topic, course or trackCovered within other topics

Inside the platform

Prepare for your next FDE interview.

A look at what you work with on fdeinterviews.com.

FDE Lab: a mission run in a browser terminal against a simulated customer system

FDE Lab: a mission run in a browser terminal against a simulated customer system

The FDE concept map, linking concepts to the questions that test them

The FDE concept map, linking concepts to the questions that test them

11 interview topics

  1. LLM & GenAI fundamentals
  2. RAG & agent system design
  3. Coding & DSA
  4. Machine learning & data science
  5. SQL & data engineering
  6. System design & production engineering
  7. Behavioral & customer scenarios
  8. MLOps & ML engineering
  9. ML infrastructure & GPUs
  10. AI security, privacy & governance
  11. ML system design (product)
Premium

What Premium unlocks.

  • Every answer, concept and course lesson
  • All 210 video lessons and every paper breakdown
  • All 30 FDE Lab missions in a browser terminal
  • 12 Premium PDF guides with companion files
  • The full practice-test bank and work-sample downloads
  • Mastery tracking by topic

Free answers and lessons in every topic stay free. Premium opens the rest.

FDE Interviews on its own$256 months
All 8 platforms, bought separately$40012 months: 2 terms on each platform
All-Access Pass$6912 months on all 8, FDE Interviews included. You save $331.
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