Tell me about a time you reduced cost without making the product feel cheaper.

Instruction: Answer this as a story about saving money while preserving a premium user experience.

Context: Evaluates whether the candidate can communicate judgment, collaboration, and ownership in a real setting. Answer this as a story about saving money while preserving a premium user experience.

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One example I would use is this: On one assistant, we found that expensive routing was being used for many low-ambiguity lookups where a smaller model and a tighter prompt worked just as well. We moved those cases onto the cheaper path...

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