# AI Agent Interviews

> Interview preparation for engineers who build AI agents and agentic systems: agent loops, tool design, context engineering, memory, planning, multi-agent systems, agent evaluation, safety and prompt injection, MCP and A2A, production reliability, coding and computer-use agents, and agentic system design. All content is free to read and may be quoted with a link to the source page.

## Core pages

- [AI agent interview questions](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/): 48 questions across twelve areas, each with what a strong answer covers and the level it targets.
- [Agentic system design interview](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agentic-system-design/): a seven-step method for the design round, worked end to end on a customer support agent that can issue refunds.
- [AI agent glossary](https://aiagentinterviews.com/glossary/): 43 agentic AI terms defined in one or two sentences, from agent loop and compaction to pass^k and the lethal trifecta.

## Question areas

- [Agent loops and architecture](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#agent-loops)
- [Tool design and function calling](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#tool-design)
- [Context engineering](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#context-engineering)
- [Agent memory](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#memory)
- [Planning and reasoning](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#planning)
- [Multi-agent systems](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#multi-agent)
- [Agent evaluation](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#evals)
- [Safety and security](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#safety)
- [Protocols: MCP and A2A](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#protocols)
- [Reliability, cost and latency](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#production)
- [Coding and computer-use agents](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#coding-agents)
- [Agentic system design and coding rounds](https://aiagentinterviews.com/agent-interview-questions/#system-design)

## About

- [About and editorial standards](https://aiagentinterviews.com/about/): no invented statistics or "asked at" claims, volatile facts dated, sources named.