Tell me about a time you had to choose between recall, latency, and answer quality.

Instruction: Answer this as a story about a retrieval tradeoff that affected the product experience.

Context: Evaluates whether the candidate can communicate judgment, collaboration, and ownership in a real setting. Answer this as a story about a retrieval tradeoff that affected the product experience.

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One example I would use is this: On a support assistant, we hit a real tradeoff where expanding the candidate set improved recall on hard cases but slowed the system enough that agents stopped trusting it in live workflows. At the same time, trimming the context made responses faster...

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