Example interviews
The assessment
The follow-up makes the difference.
Your job description and résumé shape the interview.
Example roles
Illustrative exchange · AI-generated imagery
Walk me through an AI system you built.
Candidate
“We built a support assistant using retrieval and an LLM.”
Interviewer follows up
“What was the hardest reliability problem, and how did you address it?”
Now there’s evidence
“It sometimes retrieved outdated policies. We filtered by policy version and added a fallback when no current source was available.”
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AI system reliability
Interviewer: Walk me through an AI system you built.
Alex: We built a support assistant using retrieval and an LLM.
Interviewer: What was the hardest reliability problem, and how did you address it?
Alex: It sometimes retrieved outdated policies. We filtered by policy version and added a fallback when no current source was available.
Interviewer: How did you verify that those changes improved the answers?
Alex: We replayed 200 support questions against both versions and checked the answers against current policies. Wrong-policy answers dropped from 18 to four.