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Top 100 Groq Interview Questions

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01
What is the KV cache in transformer inference?
FlashcardEasy
02
In LLM serving, what is the primary driver of end to end latency for a generation request?
Multiple ChoiceMedium
03
Why combine BM25 with dense embeddings for retrieval?
Multiple ChoiceEasy
04
Order the phases of a warmup-stable-decay pretraining run
Order StepsEasy
05
Recognize vLLM and the optimization that made it famous
FlashcardEasy
06
How does a base model differ from an instruction tuned model?
Multiple ChoiceEasy
07
What is the NVIDIA A100, and what specs matter for LLM inference?
FlashcardEasy
08
Define GQA in transformer attention
FlashcardEasy
09
What does TensorRT-LLM stand for, and what is its production differentiator?
FlashcardEasy
10
Name TGI's maintainer and its niche among serving stacks
FlashcardEasy
11
Pair HBM and SRAM with their roles on an inference GPU
Match PairsEasy
12
Identify PagedAttention and the project it ships with
FlashcardEasy
13
For which workload would you switch a hybrid model's thinking off?
Multiple ChoiceEasy
14
Match TTFT and TPOT to the latency they measure during streaming
Match PairsEasy
15
When does cosine similarity equal the dot product?
Fill in BlankEasy
16
Decode the acronym MHA in the transformer attention context.
FlashcardEasy
17
Which control is meant for rare gradient norm blowups?
Multiple ChoiceEasy
18
What is self-preference bias in LLM-as-judge setups?
FlashcardEasy
19
Expand MQA and state its KV-cache cost tradeoff
FlashcardEasy
20
Throughput, for an LLM serving system: give the working definition
FlashcardEasy
21
Which components dominate cold start latency when a serving replica spins up?
Multi-selectMedium
22
Why do reward models often reward longer responses, and how do you mitigate it?
Short AnswerMedium
23
An uploaded 300 page manual: the assistant answers well about early pages but ignores later ones
Short AnswerMedium
24
Sliding window attention can't see beyond the window. Describe the trick that recovers older context.
Short AnswerMedium
25
Match each compliance regime to the concrete guardrail control it forces
Match PairsMedium
26
What best explains higher tail latency for MoE serving versus a dense model with similar active compute?
Multiple ChoiceMedium
27
Identify the situations in which an LLM framework is worth adopting (select all that apply)
Multi-selectMedium
28
Why do hour scale agents use hierarchical summarization instead of a single summary block?
FlashcardMedium
29
When is LangGraph subgraph composition worth using?
Short AnswerMedium
30
Spot the errors in this 'API is slow because of network and tokenizer' explanation
Spot the ErrorMedium
31
Why does a reasoning model like DeepSeek V4 quietly inflate the output token bill?
Short AnswerMedium
32
When is Claude Sonnet 4.6 the right choice over Opus 4.7?
Multiple ChoiceMedium
33
Why do production chat APIs almost never offer beam search as a decoding option?
Multiple ChoiceMedium
34
How do URI templates work in MCP Resources, and how do subscriptions differ from a one-shot read?
Short AnswerMedium
35
Name the architectural shifts vLLM v1 made relative to v0
Short AnswerMedium
36
Does Anthropic's message_start event count toward TTFT in production benchmarks?
Short AnswerMedium
37
PremiumWhy did continuous batching…
Short AnswerMedium
38
Spot the errors in this description of continuous batching
Spot the ErrorMedium
39
Why does batching help LLM decode disproportionately more than batching helps CNN inference?
Short AnswerMedium
40
Why is batching the single biggest throughput lever for LLM decode?
Short AnswerMedium
41
Diagnose why majority voting stopped working on free form summary outputs
Multiple ChoiceMedium
42
What problem the A2A (agent to agent) protocol is designed to solve
Multiple ChoiceMedium
43
PremiumFor a 200-token prompt…
Short AnswerMedium
44
Spot the errors in this 'batching is universal' claim
Spot the ErrorMedium
45
PremiumWhat is the primary…
Multiple ChoiceMedium
46
PremiumFor which workload does…
Multiple ChoiceMedium
47
Compare greedy, sampling and beam search at inference: cost and best use case.
Short AnswerMedium
48
PremiumWhat is the reason…
Multiple ChoiceMedium
49
Trace how one slow request stalls every co-batched generation step.
Short AnswerMedium
50
Which labeling UI detail guards against position bias?
Multiple ChoiceMedium
51
PremiumWhy does a streaming…
FlashcardHard
52
Explain alignment faking and what its existence implies for RLHF
FlashcardHard
53
Why market and auction topologies rarely make it from paper to production
Multiple ChoiceHard
54
Design an audit to verify a provider's claim that one expert 'handles math.'
Short AnswerHard
55
PremiumExplain why a rank-r…
Short AnswerHard
56
PremiumHow does Sarathi-Serve's chunked…
Short AnswerHard
57
Compute the arithmetic intensity of decode at varying batch sizes
Predict OutputHard
58
Compute the bandwidth vs compute latency of a single Llama-70B decode step on H100
Predict OutputHard
59
PremiumMatch each modern architecture…
Match PairsHard
60
Put the vLLM style continuous batching scheduler steps in correct order for one iteration
Order StepsHard
61
Compute the critical batch size where decode crosses from memory bound to compute bound on H100
Predict OutputHard
62
Walk through the byte accounting that proves a single batch decode step is bandwidth bound on H100.
Short AnswerHard
63
Design the parallelism layout for training a 16-expert MoE across 64 GPUs.
Short AnswerHard
64
What is the arithmetic intensity of an LLM decode step and why is it close to 1?
Short AnswerHard
65
PremiumSpot the bug in…
Spot the ErrorHard
66
Why can duplicating the middle layers grow a model during training, and when should you train from scratch instead?
Short AnswerHard
67
Compute the hardware cost vs gross margin for serving $15/M output tokens on H100
Predict OutputHard
68
Match each eval integrated framework to the workflow it most directly optimises for
Match PairsHard
69
Match each advanced speculative decoding variant to its defining mechanism
Match PairsHard
70
How do you design the post-FT eval suite for a customer support fine-tuned model?
Short AnswerHard
71
As batch size grows, where does throughput stop increasing and per request latency start exploding?
Short AnswerHard
72
What slice level eval reveals about an 85% faithful RAG system suspected to fail on multi-hop queries
Predict OutputHard
73
PremiumSpot the flaw in…
Spot the ErrorHard
74
What can GraphRAG answer that top-k vector retrieval structurally cannot, and when is the cost justified?
Short AnswerHard
75
What does the vLLM style continuous batching scheduler do at each step?
Short AnswerHard
76
Compute the throughput and per request latency behaviour as batch size grows past saturation
Predict OutputHard

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