Tell me about a time you changed your retrieval strategy after looking at real failures.

Instruction: Answer this as a story about improving retrieval based on production evidence.

Context: Evaluates whether the candidate can communicate judgment, collaboration, and ownership in a real setting. Answer this as a story about improving retrieval based on production evidence.

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One example I would use is this: On one internal assistant, we started with a dense-first retrieval stack because early demos looked great on conceptual queries. Once we watched production traces, the pattern changed. Users were asking lots of versioned policy and product questions with exact identifiers, and the system kept retrieving topically related passages instead...

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