Prompt Engineering Interview Pack - Medium Questions Only

Level: Medium How to use: Focus on concrete prompt decisions, not broad architecture narration.

Interview Questions

Senior Engineer

1. How would you design the prompt for a user asking, "Recommend something like Attack on Titan but with more politics"?
2. How would you prompt a policy answer differently from a product-attribute answer?
3. What prompt changes would you make when the UI expects strict JSON output?

Staff Engineer

1. How do you decide what belongs in the system prompt versus retrieved context versus structured business input?
2. How would you keep a long multi-turn conversation inside token budget without losing key preferences?
3. Why can adding more retrieved chunks reduce answer quality instead of improving it?

Product Analyst

1. What prompt-level changes would improve concision without making the chatbot feel robotic?
2. How would you make follow-up suggestions useful instead of generic?

Applied Scientist

1. When would you use zero-shot, one-shot, or few-shot prompting in this project?
2. How would you adapt prompts for multilingual use without weakening business constraints?