A user asks a multi-hop question that no single chunk can answer. How would you handle it?

Instruction: Describe how you would support questions that require combining evidence across several documents or sections.

Context: Tests how the candidate diagnoses the problem, chooses the safest next step, and reasons through recovery. Describe how you would support questions that require combining evidence across several documents or sections.

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I would not try to force a single chunk to answer a compositional question. I would switch to a multi-hop strategy: decompose the query into subclaims, retrieve evidence for each, and only then synthesize a response that ties the pieces together explicitly...

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