Narrow, sourced articles on forward deployed engineer interviews. Each one links to the guide it belongs to, and every fact in it names its source.
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Interview rounds
When a customer says ‘just fine-tune it’: how to choose between fine-tuning, RAG and prompting, with worked scenarios and the words to explain your call.
Pay and offers
Offered base wages on certified H-1B filings for forward deployed titles, by employer and city, and what filings leave out: equity, bonus and level.
Interview rounds
What published and candidate-reported FDE take-home prompts ask for, the deliverables they share, and how to scope yours to the time box.
The FDE role
OpenAI’s FDE team has ex-consultants, and Palantir says a Delta is not a consultant. What transfers from consulting, what doesn’t, and the coding plan.
The FDE role
Moving from sales engineer to forward deployed engineer: the FDE rounds that test what SE work skips, how to reframe quota stories, and a practice plan.
The FDE role
You already build software. What transfers to the FDE role, what the loop tests that your job never did, and a plan for stories, rounds and résumé lines.
The FDE role
Moving from solutions architect to forward deployed engineer: what the FDE loop tests that SA work rarely shows, and a plan to close the coding gap.
Company loops
Google Cloud customer engineer vs forward deployed engineer: what each posting says the job is, how pay is structured, and what candidates report.
Company loops
RRK is Google’s role-related knowledge round. What FDE candidates report it covers, and a worked answer to an agentic design prompt.
The FDE role
What FDE job postings say about travel, company by company, what a travel percentage means in days away, and what to ask before you accept an offer.
Interview rounds
‘I like customers and code’ invites a harder follow-up. Three weak answers to ‘why FDE?’, why each breaks, and a rewrite built on something you did.
Interview rounds
A time-boxed structure for open-ended technical interview questions, with the exact transition sentences and a worked example, so you stop rambling.
Every post belongs to a longer guide. Each guide covers its topic whole.