A Focused Study Plan
Turn your target role, level, timeline, and skill gaps into clear preparation priorities.
INTERVIEW COACHING BY THE 5-OFFER GUY
Prepare for Your Next AI / ML Interview with Confidence
Personalized technical and leadership coaching for senior-to-principal AI/ML engineers, applied scientists, tech leads, EMs, and AI leaders.
The author of Machine Learning Interviews on GitHubalirezadir/machine-learning-interviewsRepeated offers from
Meta
Practice for AI / ML interviews at
Prep Stack
AI & ML foundations and depth
System design: Classic ML, GenAI & Agentic AI
Hands-on AI/ML coding
Leadership and behavioral interviews
What I Help With
Personalized AI interview coaching for senior+ roles
Technical depth, interviewing skills, system design, behavioral judgment, and leadership preparation for experienced AI/ML candidates.
Personalized Technical & Leadership Prep
A study plan tailored to your target role, timeline, and gaps, plus FAANG-level mock interviews with actionable feedback and progress tracking.
Senior+ AI Roles
AI/ML Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Applied Scientist, Tech Lead, EM, and other senior-to-principal AI leadership loops.
Interviewing Skills, Strategy & Structure
Build the communication, problem-framing, and offer-tested structure needed to navigate FAANG-caliber AI interviews.
AI/ML Foundations
Classic ML, deep learning, foundation models, transformers, LLMs, multimodal AI, and evaluation.
AI/ML Hands-On Coding
Classic ML coding, PyTorch implementation, LLM and GenAI coding, plus hands-on GenAI and Agentic AI exercises.
AI/ML System Design
Classic ML, GenAI, and Agentic AI system design, from chatbots and RAG to multi-agent orchestration, PoC, evaluation, and deployment.
Leadership & Behavioral Interviews
Career narrative, leveling, execution stories, conflict examples, and leadership principles.
Why Work With Me
A proven preparation formula, not generic advice
Acing senior+ technical interviews is not only about your knowledge or past experience. Interviewing is a skill: framing problems, communicating tradeoffs, collaborating, and showing judgment under pressure.
After months of trial and error, I built a repeatable structure that helped me earn five concurrent FAANG-caliber offers. I now coach candidates to practice that same structure deliberately.
View LinkedIn profile20+ Years Across Research & Industry
A decade of ML and robotics research plus 10+ years in industry, from Meta Reality Labs and Ray-Ban smart glasses to leading customer-facing GenAI projects at AWS.
FAANG Interview-Proven Playbook
A repeatable formula shaped by five concurrent FAANG-caliber offers from Meta, Google, Amazon, Apple, and more.
GitHub-Proven Curriculum
Author of Machine Learning Interviews, recognized with 9.7k+ GitHub stars and helping 10,000+ candidates prepare worldwide.
Interview Kickstart Mentor
AI/ML interview mentor helping experienced candidates prepare for rigorous technical and leadership loops.
Multimodal and agentic AI across language, speech, vision, motion, AR/VR, robotics, and multi-agent systems · 7 patents · 30+ publications · work featured in The Wall Street Journal and NBC
Coaching Structure
Prep that turns interviews into a system
Start with a focused plan, then use sessions for personalized skill building or realistic mock-interview practice.
Personalized Coaching Sessions
Choose an interview area or skill to learn or improve, with coaching tailored to that goal.
Real-World Mock Interviews
FAANG-level mocks—not generic drills—with actionable feedback and progress tracking.
Coaching Packages
Simple, transparent pricing
Every session can be used for personalized coaching or a role-specific mock interview. Mix the two as your preparation evolves.
1 Session
$199$150intro rate
One focused session for an immediate interview need or a realistic mock interview.
- 60-minute 1:1 session
- Coaching or mock interview
- Role-specific focus
- Feedback and next steps
3-Session Package
$499$399intro rate
Compact preparation for one interview area or a short upcoming loop.
- Three 60-minute 1:1 sessions
- Coaching and mock interview mix
- Personalized priorities
- Progress tracking
Most Popular
5-Session Package
$899$749intro rate
Structured preparation across the core parts of your interview loop.
- Five 60-minute 1:1 sessions
- Role-specific study plan
- Technical and leadership prep
- Feedback between sessions
Best Value
10-Session Package
$1,500$1,199intro rate
End-to-end preparation for senior and leadership interview loops.
- Ten 60-minute 1:1 sessions
- Flexible coaching and mock mix
- Company-specific study plan
- Ongoing plan adjustments
Custom Package
Let's talk
Build a preparation plan around your role, timeline, and interview loop.
- Flexible coaching and mock mix
- Specialized interview preparation
- Senior and leadership roles
- Personalized preparation plan
Testimonials
What candidates say
Realistic mock interviews, structured prep, and targeted feedback for serious AI/ML interview loops.
A
“The mock interviews felt exactly like the real thing. I walked into my onsite calm and prepared, and the system design feedback was a game changer.”
Sample Candidate
ML Engineer -> FAANG
B
“We restructured my entire prep plan in the first session. The LLM and agentic AI deep-dives covered topics I had no idea would come up.”
Sample Candidate
Applied Scientist
C
“Having a coach who has actually made hiring decisions is completely different. The leveling advice alone was worth it for my staff loop.”
Sample Candidate
Staff ML -> Senior Role
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
AI/ML engineers, Applied AI engineers, applied scientists, research scientists, tech leads, engineering managers, and AI leaders preparing for technical and leadership interview loops.
Anyone serious about preparing for technical and leadership interviews in AI-related roles. I will show you a clear path and coach you through it, but you need to put in the deliberate practice to make it happen.
The strongest fit is senior through principal-level loops, including tech lead and AI leadership roles where depth, judgment, and communication all matter. Junior and recent-graduate applications are limited; contact me so we can confirm fit and qualifications.
Yes. Mock interviews can cover ML foundations, hands-on ML coding, AI/ML system design, LLM and agentic AI design, behavioral rounds, or leadership interviews.
Yes. AI/ML system design is a core area of strength, supported by a proven nine-step formula I developed. We cover classic ML systems, GenAI product architecture, RAG, agentic and multi-agent systems, evaluation, deployment, and production tradeoffs. You can review the framework in my GitHub curriculum.
Yes. We go deep on foundation models, transformers, LLM internals, multimodal AI, RAG, agents, tool use, guardrails, post-training, inference, and evaluation.
AI interviewers are useful for early practice, knowledge checks, and improving wording, but most interviews are still conducted by humans. AI cannot yet reliably perceive the full human signal: behavior under pressure, thought process, tone of voice, collaboration, adaptability, and rapport. AI tutors can teach widely available knowledge when grounded in interview-specific material, but a general-purpose chatbot generating answers from pre-trained data is not a substitute for targeted human coaching and feedback.
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