xAI take-home interview
Round 2 of 7 · 1 question reported
- Length
- 240 min
- Format
- Four-hour CodeSignal project; pick one of several prompts (backend service, RAG service, frontend or mobile app), then record a demo video
- They grade
- A working, containerized service you can explain line by line in the demo
- AI use
- AI coding assistants allowed and effectively expected
- Heads-up
- Not every track. Read the prompts carefully: two backend prompts look alike but one leans toward the model side. Late requirements such as rate limiting can hide in the spec.
Questions xAI asks in this round 1
About the xAI take-home round
What does xAI ask in the take-home round?
The most asked: Post ingestion and LLM scoring pipeline take-home.
How long is the xAI take-home round?
About 240 minutes.
What is the xAI take-home round like?
Four-hour CodeSignal project; pick one of several prompts (backend service, RAG service, frontend or mobile app), then record a demo video. They grade: A working, containerized service you can explain line by line in the demo.
Can you use AI in the xAI take-home round?
AI coding assistants allowed and effectively expected.