AI Lesson & Submodule

Transformer Interview Guide

Prepare for engineering interviews focused on transformer architectures.

Why This Matters

Candidates must be able to sketch out the entire decoder block stack on demand to pass senior interviews.

What You Will Learn

  • Draw block layouts
  • Defend Pre-LN choices
  • Compare attention types

Concepts Covered

Decoder block stackingPre-LN normalizations choiceAttention math maps

Mapped Foundation Project: Mini Transformer Block Explainer

Visual deconstruction of a standard decoder block, outlining normalizations, skip links, and output projections.

Architecture Preview

Block-by-block diagram tracking vector changes as inputs pass through decoder normalizations and linear mappings.

Input TokensLayer Norm Layer 1Multi-Head Attention Block
Tech Stack Planned
ReactTypeScriptFramer Motion
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Technical Interview Value

  • ?Draw a block diagram of a decoder layer, showing normalizations, residuals, attention, and FFNs