instalilyAI·AI Engineer·Take-home Assignment
Jun 2026
instalilyAI gave me a 48-hour take-home for an AI Engineer role and it was a lot more involved than I expected. You're basically building a full product from scratch: scraper, backend, agent, frontend, all wired together and working end-to-end.
- Build a complete AI agent chat application within 48 hours. This includes writing a custom web scraper to pull product data from an e-commerce site, building a backend and frontend, and wiring an AI agent that can answer user queries grounded in the scraped data.
“The scope of this thing did not fully register until I was about six hours in and realized the scraper alone was going to eat most of my time.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at instalilyAI, Take-home Assignment round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.
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