💻Criticalhard25-30 minutes
Can you walk me through a Generative AI solution you've built end-to-end — from data preparation to model deployment? What challenges did you face, and how did you handle them?
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🎯 What Interviewers Are Looking For
- ✓Complete end-to-end ownership of a GenAI project
- ✓Understanding of the full GenAI lifecycle (data → model → deployment → monitoring)
- ✓Real-world problem-solving with production constraints
- ✓Technical depth in each phase of the pipeline
- ✓Ability to articulate trade-offs and decisions made
📋 STAR Framework Guide
Structure your answer using this framework:
S - Situation
What GenAI solution did you build? What business problem did it solve?
T - Task
What were the end-to-end requirements from data to deployment?
A - Action
Walk through each phase: data prep, model selection, development, deployment, monitoring
R - Result
What was the impact? What did you learn about building GenAI systems?
💬 Example Answer
⚠️ Pitfalls to Avoid
- ✗Only describing the model without discussing data prep or deployment
- ✗Skipping over challenges—makes it sound like you didn't really build it
- ✗Not quantifying results (time saved, accuracy, cost)
- ✗Claiming end-to-end but only doing one piece of the pipeline
- ✗Not explaining WHY you made specific technical decisions
- ✗Glossing over deployment and monitoring as 'I just deployed it'
💡 Pro Tips
- ✓Structure your answer chronologically: data → model → deploy → monitor
- ✓For each phase, explain: what you did, why, and what you learned
- ✓Be specific about tools and technologies used
- ✓Quantify everything: latency, accuracy, cost, time saved
- ✓Highlight challenges and how you solved them—this shows real experience
- ✓If you haven't done true end-to-end, be honest and explain which parts you owned
- ✓Connect your experience to the role: 'I'd love to apply these lessons to...'
🔄 Common Follow-up Questions
- →What would you do differently if you rebuilt this system?
- →How did you handle hallucinations in the LLM responses?
- →What was your testing strategy for the RAG pipeline?
- →How did you decide on your chunking strategy?
- →What metrics did you track to measure success?
- →How did you handle document updates and re-indexing?
- →What was your prompt engineering process?
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