PREP FOR A SPECIFIC LOOP

Interview prep by company

Targeting one company? Each page covers how it hires, what its loop tests, and the questions that map to it. We group honestly by whether the company runs a true Forward Deployed Engineer program.

46 companies·21 FDE programs·updated for 2026

Forward Deployed Engineer programs

21Companies that run a real FDE or embedded applied-AI org.

OpenAI Anthropic Google Microsoft Scale AI Cognition Decagon Sarvam AI Palantir Meta Mistral Glean Sierra Harvey NVIDIA C3 AI Anduril Applied Intuition Postman ElevenLabs Rippling

Applied AI & solutions engineering

9Customer-facing AI engineering roles, FDE-adjacent.

AWS IBM xAI Salesforce Databricks Snowflake Cohere Perplexity Cursor

AI & ML engineering loops

16No classic FDE program, but their engineering loops overlap heavily with this bank.

Google DeepMind Google Gemini Hugging Face DeepSeek Thinking Machines SSI (Safe Superintelligence)Reflection AI Shield AI SpaceX Black Forest Labs Alibaba Tencent Baidu ByteDance Parallel Stanford AI Lab