Design a RAG architecture for multi-tenant enterprise search.

Instruction: Explain how you would design retrieval for many enterprise customers with strict permission boundaries.

Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Explain how you would design retrieval for many enterprise customers with strict permission boundaries.

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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: For multi-tenant enterprise search, I would design security boundaries into candidate generation, not as a cleanup step after retrieval. Each document needs tenant, org, and permission metadata that the system can enforce before the model sees any text.

I would separate...

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