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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Bookmarks Creator Studio Premium 50% off Profile More Post Ishaan Panigrahi @ishaanpanigrahi Article See new posts Conversation Xiuyu Li @sheriyuo RL Interview Questions 2026 7 70 739 53K After seeing several people receive PhD offers and then immediately land highly paid industry positions during spring recruiting, I started wondering whether going straight into industry might actually be the better move. So I went through essentially every RL-related interview experience I could find on Zhihu, combined them with recent discussions and my own observations, and distilled everything into 35 of the most interesting questions. Think of it as an RL interview benchmark. CN version in Zhihu: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2046740446353811230 A few notes: • The list does not strictly separate LLM RL from Agentic RL. Some questions have very different answers depending on the setting. • N

@sheriyuo: RL Interview Questions 2026 After seeing several people receive PhD offers and then immediately land highly paid industry positions during spring recruiting, I started wondering whether going straight into industry might actually be the better move. So I went through essentially every RL-related interview experience I could find on Zhihu, combined them with recent discussions and my own observations, and distilled everything into 35 of the most interesting questions. Think of it as an RL interview benchmark. CN version in Zhihu: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2046740446353811230 A fe

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