8090 interview field kit · ten hours of rehearsal

Twenty 30-minute mocks.

A company-specific system-design curriculum built from 8090’s platform, enterprise delivery work, public challenges, engineering writing, changelog, and hiring signals. Every mock is a complete interviewer–candidate conversation—not a prompt list.

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The interview board

Start with 01, then follow a track or attack your weakest domain. All numbers inside the interviews are explicitly labeled mock constraints.

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01Platform

Auditable AI Software Factory

Connect business intent to code and tests while durable, multi-model agents work under versioned context, quotas, and approval.

provenanceagentsversioning

Core Software Factory product + Chamath audit/harness thesis.

02Regulated

Regulated EvidenceFlow

Turn hostile fax/PDF packets into evidence-backed decisions with calibrated abstention, human review, and reproducible offline execution.

OCRabstentionair gap

MIB challenge + DME document intelligence + regulated delivery.

03Platform

Multi-Repo Code Intelligence & Drift

Index huge, permissioned repositories incrementally and detect traceable requirements-to-code drift without blocking development.

webhookssymbolsdrift

GitHub/GitLab integration, multi-repo search, Drift Bot, CMS-scale code.

04Platform

Collaborative SDLC Editor

Let humans and agents coauthor structured requirements and blueprints without losing identity, approval authority, or history.

CRDT/OTapprovalreconnect

Realtime multiplayer, suggestions, version history, changelog race fixes.

05Legacy

CMS-Scale Legacy Rule Extraction

Recover traceable business rules from millions of lines of COBOL/Assembly and make them reviewable across several claims systems.

static analysisSME reviewlineage

ClaimsCore case + ESRD pricer repository.

06Legacy

Golden-Master Modernization

Reconstruct a financial black box from traces, preserve quirks, shadow safely, then introduce intentional policy corrections.

parityshadowingcutover

Top Coder challenge + 8090 modernization positioning.

07Legacy

PLM Rules & Part Management

Validate part definitions in real time, autoapprove compliant work, route exceptions, and keep a legacy PLM authoritative.

rulebookexceptionsPLM

BISSELL production customer story.

08Regulated

Claims Payment-Integrity Filter

Build an explainable deterministic prefilter that reduces expensive vendor review without hiding false-positive or appeal risk.

claimsrulesreconciliation

8090 insurer/payment-integrity delivery case.

09Platform

Feedback Intelligence Loop

Ingest noisy feedback, preserve evidence, cluster it into explainable themes, and propose traceable Work Orders.

clusteringPIIfeedback→work

Software Factory Feedback module and automated triage.

10Platform

Enterprise Integration Plane

Safely connect users, projects, agents, repositories, Slack, and external MCP tools across changing OAuth scopes.

OAuthMCPconfused deputy

Documented GitHub/GitLab/Slack/MCP integrations.

11Platform

Agent Evaluation & Benchmark Platform

Execute untrusted submissions, score business risk deterministically, prevent leakage/gaming, and prove reproducibility.

holdoutssandboxevals

MIB/Top Coder evaluators + medical evaluation framework.

12Operations

AI Usage Metering & Budgets

Meter multiple model/tool providers accurately, reserve budgets before work, enforce quotas, and reconcile late cost data.

meteringquotasbilling

Software Factory model catalog, token costs, and usage dashboard.

13Operations

Durable Agent Scheduler

Schedule hours-long agent DAGs with leases, checkpoints, scoped side effects, fair queues, cancellation, and recovery.

leasesDAGfairness

Durable Agents, subagents, automations, and scheduler failure signals.

14Platform

Permission-Aware Knowledge Base

Ingest many artifact formats and serve citation-rich retrieval without leaking stale, deleted, or unauthorized content.

RAGACLscitations

Software Factory Knowledge Base and MCP search/read.

15Regulated

Regulated Medical Authoring

Draft evidence-grounded medical responses with sentence citations, expert stages, immutable snapshots, and quality release gates.

citationsF2judge drift

8090’s detailed medical-authoring engineering post.

16Regulated

Medicaid FWA Analytics

Enrich and score hundreds of millions of claim rows reproducibly, then route explainable leads to investigators.

batchML+rulescasework

Public Medicaid claims analytics repository.

17Regulated

Clinical Recommendation Engine

Unify six legacy data sources, surface explainable care opportunities, work offline during visits, and learn from clinician feedback.

identityfreshnessoffline

8090 Medicare Advantage recommendation case.

18Legacy

Modernization Portfolio Factory

Discover, rank, and migrate hundreds of dependent legacy applications through parallel agent/human assembly lines.

portfoliodependenciesstrangler

8090 Modernize path + EY portfolio/discovery emphasis.

19Operations

Managed Enterprise Deployment Plane

Operate one product across shared SaaS, dedicated regions, customer VPCs, and air gaps without losing release or audit control.

fleetVPCDR

8090 Enterprise host/maintain promise + sovereignty direction.

20Operations

AI Audit & Deletion Lineage

Record reproducible AI action receipts while honoring retention, legal hold, derived-data deletion, and cryptographic integrity.

auditlineagelegal hold

Chamath AI-risk audit chain + Factory traceability/privacy requirements.

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Suggested tracks

Use routes to build depth without doing twenty in numerical order.

Core 8090

Best five if time is short.

01 → 03 → 05 → 11 → 19

Platform engineer

Control planes, collaboration, scheduling, knowledge.

01 → 04 → 10 → 12 → 13 → 14

Regulated systems

Evidence, decisions, claims, authoring, clinical work.

02 → 08 → 15 → 16 → 17 → 20

Modernization

Recover intent, establish parity, migrate by slices.

03 → 05 → 06 → 07 → 18 → 19

Run each mock aloud

  1. Hide or pause before each candidate answer.
  2. Answer from the interviewer’s question for 30–90 seconds.
  3. Compare your invariant, calculation, schema, API, and failure response.
  4. Record one missed trade-off and rerun the same mock 48 hours later.

Evidence boundary

These are predictions, not leaked 8090 questions. Company/customer metrics in the research report are labeled; all scenario traffic and SLO values inside the mocks are invented constraints for design practice.

Read the sourced investigation and caveats →