Build your profile
Sign in with LinkedIn, add your CV or GitHub, and choose the project you would defend. Imports preview before they apply.
FOR ENGINEERS THE FDE ASSESSMENT
Defend work you’re proud of.
One real conversation about one real project. Find out how your work maps to the Forward Deployed Engineer standard—and leave with a practical path to get better.
THE PROMISE
No take-home. No trick questions. No whiteboard performance. Bring the project that best shows how you think and build.
HOW IT WORKS FOR ENGINEERS
Real conversation.
Useful result.
The FDE Coach adapts to your answers rather than marching through a quiz. It moves on when it has enough evidence and goes deeper when an answer matters.
Choose chat or voice
Have the same 30–40 minute interview in the modality that lets you explain your work clearly.
Defend the decisions
Walk through Discover, Design, Build, Deploy, and Scale. The coach follows the interesting thread and pushes for specifics.
Get your next move
Receive an honest narrative, strengths and gaps, and a practical learning path grounded in what you actually said.
THE INTERVIEW ARC
The stages cannot be skipped.
The conversation follows the shape of a real customer engagement, from finding the problem to measuring the business result.
Discover
How did you find the true problem behind the stated request?
Design
Where did AI work, where did a human decide, and what stayed unchanged?
Build
What did you personally build, and which decisions did you make?
Deploy
How did it become something real people could depend on?
Scale
What did the business get, and how did you measure it?
WHAT YOU KEEP
Something worth your time—whatever the outcome.
A clear narrative
What stood out, where your evidence was strongest, and where the conversation showed a gap.
A practical learning path
Three to six action-oriented modules tied to your answers—not a generic reading list.
A profile you control
Share your work publicly when you choose. Assessment scores, evidence, and transcripts never appear on it.
WHERE WE DRAW THE LINES
Your assessment is not public content.
01Candidates never see an unexplained number
You receive a narrative and learning path; internal scores and hiring recommendations are not sent to the candidate screen.
02Public profiles carry no assessment data
No scores, transcript, quotes, evidence, recommendations, or reviewer notes.
03Every internal score needs evidence
If the assessment cannot quote what you said, it cannot claim the point.
YOUR NEXT FORWARD MOVE
Bring the project you would defend.
Chat or voice. Thirty to forty minutes. Real work, honestly assessed.
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