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Eval design for product teams Interview Questions

25 questions. All 25 carry a written answer.

  1. #1What makes an eval product-relevant rather than research-relevant?ConceptFoundational
  2. #2Design an eval for a feature that drafts email replies.CaseIntermediate
  3. #3How do you decide between automated evals and human review?ConceptIntermediate
  4. #4Explain the tradeoffs of LLM-as-judge for a product team.ConceptAdvanced
  5. #5How do you validate that your judge model agrees with human raters?CalculationAdvanced
  6. #6Describe a rubric that a non-technical reviewer could apply consistently.Artifact critiqueIntermediate
  7. #7What is inter-rater reliability and why should a PM care?ConceptAdvanced
  8. #8How do you design evals that catch regressions rather than just measuring level?ConceptAdvanced
  9. #9Explain the difference between unit evals and end-to-end evals.ConceptIntermediate
  10. #10How would you eval a retrieval system separately from the generation on top of it?CaseAdvanced
  11. #11Describe an eval for a multi-turn conversation rather than a single response.CaseAdvanced
  12. #12What is the cost of running evals and how do you budget for it?CalculationAdvanced
  13. #13How often should evals run in a CI pipeline versus on demand?ConceptIntermediate
  14. #14Explain how to design an eval that will still be meaningful in a year.ConceptAdvanced
  15. #15How do you eval a feature whose quality depends on the user's own documents?CaseAdvanced
  16. #16Describe the failure mode where evals improve but users do not notice.ConceptAdvanced
  17. #17What is the role of a red team in an eval program?ConceptAdvanced
  18. #18How would you eval an agent's decision to use a tool rather than its final output?CaseAdvanced
  19. #19Critique an eval that uses the same examples used to write the prompt.Artifact critiqueIntermediate
  20. #20How do you present eval results to a non-technical decision maker?CaseIntermediate
  21. #21Explain how to eval safety behaviour without a huge annotation budget.CaseAdvanced
  22. #22What eval would you build first with only one week?InterviewIntermediate
  23. #23How do you know when your eval suite is good enough?ConceptAdvanced
  24. #24Describe the relationship between evals and your incident response process.ConceptAdvanced
  25. #25Design an eval program from scratch for a team that has none.InterviewAdvanced