C3 AI Field / Application Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at C3 AI.
C3 AI
Forward Deployed Engineer
Mid Easy Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Background check
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral
First, they looked at my resume and then we talked about my past projects and future expectations, my current roles and my technical knowledge. They gave me scenarios of real-life situations and checked my reactions and solutions to issues. The HR himself was confused about the interview time, he scheduled the meeting saying the time was in my local timezone, then I received a reminder to show up at a different time. The local employee interviewer looked like he was going to fall asleep while I talked about my experience. The HR sent the next calendar schedule but did not key it in because the entire environment felt too stressful. HR did not follow up.
Confirmed questions5 questions
- Can you tell me about your current experience?
- Tell me about your past projects and what you expect in the future.
- Describe your current role.
C3 AI
Forward Deployed Engineer
Senior Difficult Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Onsite Background check Offer
Interview formats
Coding System Design Behavioral
The interview process felt pretty similar to MAANG interviews. It had coding interviews and a system design interview as Phase 1. Phase 2 is apparently a meeting with the executive who makes the financial decisions. Just a heads up, they sometimes change the schedule last minute, like the day before, so be ready for that. I rated it negatively mainly because of the System Design Interview with a Senior FDE. I mean, the managers there probably have like 4 years of experience, maybe 2 as an individual contributor and 2 as a manager. How many people have they really helped advance their careers in that time? It felt more like a direct interrogation than a discussion. At MAANG, a senior manager usually has 8-10 years of experience and has helped a lot of people develop their careers. It's an interview, sure, but they should also be guiding it better. This lack of experience showed when they asked me what I was doing, even though my resume clearly stated I was on medical leave. That's basically asking for medical information, which is illegal under the ADA. I mean, if I had cancer and was undergoing treatment, I wouldn't have to disclose that.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- How would you approach counting primes?
- Can you solve the Trapping Rainwater problem?
- Describe your design for a restaurant.
C3 AI
Forward Deployed Engineer
Mid Average Positive experience No offer 5 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Technical screen Onsite Panel Background check
Interview formats
Coding System Design Behavioral
It was a pretty standard process. First, I had a Hackerrank OA, then a hiring manager round. After that, there was a Leetcode style round and a system design round. The final step was a behavioral round. Even though all the feedback was positive, the manager called me after the last round to say they decided to go in a different direction, and he couldn't give me any specific feedback.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Can you design a car rental system similar to Enterprise?
C3 AI Field / Application Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from C3 AI interview reports.
“Write a generic function to perform a specific operation on time series data.”
Read reports →“Can you write a function that accepts an integer n and outputs all n-digit numbers divisible by 5?”
Read reports →“Could you generate all valid pairs of parentheses given an input N?”
Read reports →“How would you output all nodes of a tree without using a stack or recursion?”
Read reports →“How would you efficiently find the index of the first 'True' value in a boolean array where all 'True' values appear after all 'False' values, indicating a system failure state?”
Read report →“How would you determine the login time of maximum users from a time series dataset?”
Read report →“How would you quickly get data from a huge array where you don't know how many items are in it?”
Read report →“Can you solve the Trapping Rainwater problem?”
Read report →“How would you approach medium difficulty graph problems using DFS/BFS?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 32 C3 AI interview reports.