Design the pre-launch eval suite for a customer support bot.
Evals are the #1 probing area in AI-lab FDE loops. The full suite design, golden sets, component metrics, safety red-teaming, CI gates, and the launch-blocking thresholds, in interview-ready form.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
Evals are the #1 probing area in AI-lab FDE loops. The full suite design, golden sets, component metrics, safety red-teaming, CI gates, and the launch-blocking thresholds, in interview-ready form.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
