Labelbox·Data Scientist·Hiring Manager Screen
May 2026
Hiring manager screen at Labelbox for a Data Science role, focused almost entirely on a project where I'd built an AI agent using Google ADK. The conversation went pretty deep into how I handle underdocumented tools and a specific debugging story around JSON schema outputs. Work-life balance came up at the end, which felt like a vibe check more than a real question.
- What is Google ADK and how does it compare to frameworks like LangChain or AWS Bedrock?
- When working with tools that have incomplete or immature documentation, how do you go about debugging problems or finding answers?
- Walk me through a specific problem you ran into while getting the agent to produce stable JSON schema outputs, and exactly how you resolved it.
- How do you think about work-life balance at this point in your career, especially knowing there might be occasional weekend work?
“I had actually built something with it so this wasn't a panic moment, but explaining it clearly to someone who may not know it is harder than it sounds.”