Technical Interview Evaluation Rubrics
Eliminate interviewer subjectivity. Use calibrated 4-tier evaluation rubrics across Backend, Frontend, AI/ML, and DevOps engineering roles.
Senior Backend Engineer
Basic CRUD APIs, no awareness of N+1 database queries or connection pools.
Implements transactions, indexes, and basic caching with Redis.
Designs circuit breakers, handles idempotency in message queues, optimizes connection pooling.
Reasons about CAP theorem tradeoffs, partition tolerances, multi-region replication, and distributed consensus.
Senior Frontend / Fullstack Engineer
Builds static UI components, unmanaged props drilling, and basic CSS styling.
Manages global state with context/zustand, handles form validations and API loading states.
Optimizes Core Web Vitals, implements SSR streaming, bundle code splitting, and web workers.
Architects design system component libraries, micro-frontend routing, and offline-first data sync.
AI / ML Platform Engineer
Uses standard OpenAI API wrappers without caching, retry logic, or prompt optimization.
Implements basic LangChain or LlamaIndex RAG pipelines with Chroma/Pinecone.
Optimizes vector embedding chunking, hybrid keyword/semantic search, and streaming token latencies.
Fine-tunes LoRA adapters, deploys vLLM/TGI inference clusters with speculative decoding and GPU batching.
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure
Manual cloud console resource provisioning without Terraform or IaC.
Writes basic Dockerfiles and simple GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows.
Manages Kubernetes Helm charts, Prometheus/Grafana alerting, and zero-downtime blue/green rollouts.
Architects multi-cloud failover, eBPF network observability, automated canary deployments, and chaos testing.
How Kyra Scores Against Rubrics
During live technical interviews, Kyra does not ask random questions. She checks off specific criteria in your calibrated rubric, asking progressive follow-ups to determine whether a candidate is operating at Level 2, Level 3, or Level 4 depth.
Questions mapped directly to specific Level 3 & Level 4 rubric competencies.
Follows up on candidate claims to test whether they understand the underlying architecture.
Outputs verbatim audio citations for each awarded level in the final candidate dossier.
Frequently Asked Questions
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