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I am interviewing a lot of candidates these days
for forward deployed engineering roles
I am only looking for these 2 signals
in their story:
A] Sharp B] High agency
Forward deployed engineer question:
A UK energy retailer's voice agent takes 2.8s (p95) to reply.
The time goes to:
700ms waiting for silence
300ms transcription
600ms to first token
1.2s on a billing API,
then TTS synthesises
the whole reply before playing
Optimise this?
Top answer
teapaw.org/wayne_liang_/status/21…
Replying to @code_sagar
half of that is just waiting in line. stream tts per sentence, and pull the billing data the moment the call connects, you know the account way before they finish asking. the 700ms silence wait can drop a lot with a turn detection model too
I went to Hindi medium govt school, wore used shirts and my college was funded by my relatives pooled money
life wasn’t easy
10 years after my graduation in 2014
my bloodline will never face
the horrors that I faced.
we as a family are now confused
on where to spend the year end
hope this helps put this in perspective of what this means.
this is a great initiative, love it.
but have you visited BLR KIA T1 on Monday 6AM and 10PM
you will see daily passengers like me
waiting in long queues in formals
few more flights would help definitely.
I booked a one way train ticket to Bangalore in 2014
with no job and 14K
Since then life has sky rocketed
met my wife
built sports team
built a stable career
bought real estate
got to work at
bleeding edge of AI
Thank you people of Karnataka.
My family is grateful 🙏
the edge that you have as an SME is the contextual understanding
if you publish them for free the model companies will democratize it w/o your consent
Yes, the story is mostly done.
Feel bad for the developers in India. They're basically done.
The number of messages/emails I get trying to desperately sell their services. Persistent. Companies with no actual product to offer but the ability to code quickly and cheaply.
No idea why anyone would choose them now.
We could add call centres into that too.
Forward deployed engineer interview questione
Redact PII information from email corpus before the LLM processing
and put it back in the final output
describe the solution in 5 points
Go to the next question
teapaw.org/code_sagar/status/2115…
Senior FDE interview question
An equity research bots accuracy
falls by 50% on asking
“are you sure?”
what are the possible reasons and solutions in 5 points.














