https://blog.baifan.site/en/tags/hiring/Recent content in Hiring on ByF (BaiFan) · Daily Deep ThinkHugo -- gohugo.ioenblog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))blog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))CC BY-NC 4.0Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0800https://blog.baifan.site/en/agent-interview-questions/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:00:00 +0800blog@baifan.site (ByF (BaiFan))https://blog.baifan.site/en/agent-interview-questions/<!-- more --> <blockquote><p><strong>Attachment download</strong>: <a href="https://blog.baifan.site/files/agent-interview-questions.pdf" >Agent Interview Questions.pdf</a> — handy for printing or offline reading</p> </blockquote> <h2 class="relative group">Why Would You Need Multiple Agents <div id="why-would-you-need-multiple-agents" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#why-would-you-need-multiple-agents" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p>An opening question to separate people who have &ldquo;read the articles&rdquo; from people who have &ldquo;actually built one&rdquo;.</p> <p><strong>The bad answer:</strong> &ldquo;Multi-agent enables parallel processing, which improves system throughput and robustness.&rdquo;</p> <p>Every word of that is correct, but if you follow up with &ldquo;so after splitting into two agents, did throughput actually double?&rdquo;, they stall. The reality: inter-agent communication has overhead, coordination has complexity, and after the split total throughput may well drop. Adding agents is not like adding CPU cores.</p>