Poppy AI·AI Engineer·Take-home Assignment
Aug 2026
Applied for an AI Engineer role at Poppy AI and got one of the stranger interview experiences I've had as a new grad. The process involved a Loom recording, direct texts with a founder, and a take-home Claude wrapper project that ended with me getting accused of half-assing it for following their own README.
- Build a Claude-based wrapper that generates YouTube scripts, including an optional third-party data integration.
“The README literally said the external data integration was optional and that cached data was fine.”