Instruction: Describe how you would chunk and retrieve very long manuals without losing section-level meaning.
Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe how you would chunk and retrieve very long manuals without losing section-level meaning.
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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: For long technical manuals, I would avoid one flat chunking strategy. Manuals have hierarchical structure, repeated terminology, procedures, warnings, tables, and figure references. I want the retrieval system to understand both local passages and their surrounding section context.
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