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Microsoft
S04
MediumPremiumDesign a Multi-Agent Orchestration System
Design a system where multiple specialized AI agents work together to complete a complex task — one researches, another drafts, a third critiques, and a fourth finalizes.
Multi-agentOrchestrationContext IsolationCoordinationTermination
Key Requirements
- Share context between agents without blowing up token costs
- Handle a failing or stuck agent gracefully
- Decide when multi-agent is worth it vs. a single agent
- Trace and debug across the full agent pipeline
- Prevent the coordinator from hallucinating tasks
Interviewer Follow-ups
- Q1How do you debug a 5-agent pipeline when output is wrong?
- Q2What happens when the coordinator hallucinates a subtask?
- Q3How do you handle partial failure without cascading?