Senior AI Engineer Interview experience | Teradata
March 27, 2026 · 2 reads
Summary
I interviewed for a Senior AI Engineer role at Teradata. The process included a 45‑minute DSA round with a hard Minimum Window Substring problem and a system‑design round focused on designing and scaling a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture.
Full Experience
YOE: 6.5
Round 1: DSA (45 min)
- Introduction and few questions about things mentioned in resume.
- Questions on how AI is used in day‑to‑day job.
- Then interviewer gave a leetcode hard question: Minimum Window Substring
Round 2: System design
- Introduction and a HLD question to design RAG.
- Started discussion with basic RAG design and scaled it.
- Interviewer asked few questions regarding how to scale individual component at scale and some trade offs.
Interview Questions (1)
1.
Minimum Window Substring
Data Structures & Algorithms·Hard
Given two strings S and T, find the minimum window in S which will contain all the characters in T (including duplicates). If there is no such window, return an empty string.