Staging environment

FREE Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Interview Prep

Hosted by Priyanka Vergadia and Bhargav Patel

2,467 students

In this video

What you'll learn

Decode the real FDE interview loop

Understand the 7+ interview stages beyond coding from applied AI design to customer discovery and mission fit.

Build production-grade AI Systems

Learn to frame projects with tools, MCP, evals, and deployment

Nail the customer case & behavioral rounds

Practice discovery-first thinking for ambiguous enterprise scenarios and STAR stories that show ownership

Why this topic matters

FDE roles are among the hottest AI jobs right now $1M+ packages at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, but also the easiest to prep for wrong. Most candidates walk in ready for a typical SWE loop: LeetCode, system design, the usual. FDE interviews test something different can you build AI systems for the real world, scope messy customer problems, and make judgment calls under ambiguity. Miss that, and even strong engineers fail.

You'll learn from

Priyanka Vergadia

Top 0.1% AI & Cloud Leader | Visual Storyteller | TED Speaker

I've spent 15 years at the frontier of AI and Cloud leading product launches at Google and Microsoft that shaped how companies build with technology.

At Google, I led Developer Advocacy for North America and launched Gemini Code Assist alongside the CEO at Google Cloud Next. At Microsoft, I advise C-suite executives on AI transformation across GitHub Copilot and Azure. I've build a FDE and outcomes based customer facing engineering team from scratch.

I'm a TED speaker, Wharton faculty, and author of 2 bestselling books on Cloud and Generative AI.

But what sets me apart is storytelling. I built one of tech's most recognized visual education brands turning complex AI and Cloud concepts into content that has reached millions.

I teach what I live every day at the world's most innovative companies.

Bhargav Patel

AI Forward Deployed Engineer at Google

Bhargav Patel is an AI Forward Deployed Engineer at Google, working on agentic systems and LLM orchestration, and helping businesses take these systems from prototype to production.

Before Google, he was at Fractal Analytics building agentic RAG and multi-agent workflows on GCP using Vertex AI and GKE, covering retrieval, routing, tool use, and reliability. He worked directly with business stakeholders to convert requirements into delivery roadmaps, and built evaluation and monitoring into every system using LangSmith, OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, and LangWatch. One notable project: an agentic RFP evaluator with MCP server interfaces, deployed via Cloud Build CI/CD in phased rollouts with client infra teams.

See all products from Priyanka

Go deeper with a course

Storytelling for Forward Deployed Engineers FDE
Priyanka Vergadia
View syllabus