One Hour Live-Debugging Their AI Chat Codebase

A personal injury law AI startup in Seattle. One hour of debugging. The interviewer emails you a source code repository, you run it locally yourself, and fix the issues. You need to be reasonably familiar with how to work with some AI APIs. It's a chat interface. Bug 1: the console showed "API key invalid." The cause: a wrong API key. Bug 2: after sending a request in the chat box, the response t…

Shared by a candidate · reported Feb 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.