Agentic System Design Interview Questions
Each question follows a structured format: problem restatement, clarifying questions, step-by-step architecture, Mermaid diagrams, and key tradeoffs. Practice the way you'd present in a real interview.
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Design a Proactive Personal Assistant Agent
Design a proactive personal assistant that manages a user's calendar and email — scheduling meetings, drafting replies, and surfacing important items before the user asks.
Design 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.
Design a Conversational Commerce / Shopping Agent
Design a conversational shopping agent that understands customer needs through natural dialogue, recommends products, compares options, and helps complete purchases.
Design a Customer-Support Triage & Resolution Agent
Design an AI agent that handles incoming customer support tickets end-to-end — triaging by urgency, resolving simple issues automatically, and escalating complex ones to humans.
Design a Text-to-SQL / Conversational Analytics Agent
Design a system that lets non-technical business users ask questions in plain English and get accurate SQL queries and visualized results from a data warehouse.
Design a Deep Research Agent
Design an AI agent that takes a complex research question, autonomously searches the web, reads and cross-checks dozens of sources, and produces a well-structured report with proper citations.
Design an LLM Gateway / Model Router & Inference Proxy
Design an internal LLM gateway that every product team calls instead of hitting OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google directly.
Design an Intelligent Document Processing & Workflow Agent
Design an intelligent document processing system that takes incoming documents (invoices, contracts, receipts), extracts structured data, validates it, and routes it downstream.
Design a Long-Term Memory System
Design a memory system that lets an AI assistant remember user preferences, facts, and past conversations across sessions and use them when relevant.
Design an Enterprise Knowledge Agent
Design an internal company assistant that answers employee questions by searching across Slack, Docs, Jira, and other tools — while respecting each user's access permissions.
Design a Trust & Safety / Content Moderation Agent at Scale
Design a trust and safety system that uses LLMs to moderate user-generated content on a platform with millions of posts per day.
Design an AI Coding Copilot — Real-Time Inline Completion
Design the inline code completion feature in modern IDEs — the gray-text suggestions that appear as you type — serving millions of developers in real time.
Design an Autonomous Coding (SWE) Agent
Design an AI agent that takes a GitHub issue, navigates a large codebase, writes a fix, runs tests, and opens a pull request — all without human help.
Design an Agent Evaluation & Guardrail Platform
Design a platform that continuously evaluates AI agents in production and prevents them from taking unsafe actions.
Design a Computer-Use / Browser Agent
Design an AI agent that controls a real web browser or desktop GUI to complete tasks on the user's behalf — filling forms, clicking buttons, and navigating websites.
Design an AI On-Call / Incident-Response Agent
Design an AI agent that helps on-call engineers respond to production incidents — investigating alerts, correlating logs and metrics, identifying root cause, and suggesting fixes.
Design a Real-Time Voice Agent
Design a voice AI agent that handles real phone calls with low latency — understanding speech, deciding what to say, and responding naturally with proper turn-taking.
Design a Synthetic Data Generation & Curation Agent
Design a pipeline that generates high-quality synthetic training data at scale — for fine-tuning models, building evaluation sets, or augmenting sparse datasets.
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