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Engineering Leadership Interviews in the AI Era
30 min
Oct 23, 2025 5:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Prove you can lead an AI-era engineering org
It's not just familiarity with Cursor. So much has changed in team design, platform architecture, and AI tooling.
Demonstrate your executive presence and leadership
It's the most competitive time in engineering leadership ever. You have to demonstrate seniority and cross-fx care.
Storytelling to prove your readiness for the future
So much of engineering leadership is now about upskilling teams, building new platforms, and being future-forward.
Why this topic matters
Director, VP, and C-level engineering leadership interviews are hard. You have to showcase the right combination of soft skills, technical savvy, cross-functional capability -- now, with added AI modalities to de-risk an engineering org's legacy code + behavior, and a more sensitive set of capital markets for R&D. Let's dig in!
You'll learn from

Sherveen Mashayekhi
Founder & CEO @ Free Agency, AI Product Leader & Investor
Clients hired at companies like...
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