Design a Graph-RAG pipeline that turns a question into Cypher, runs it, and heals its own broken queries.
A multi-hop question over a property graph is a query-generation problem, not a similarity-search one. The staff-level move is grounding generation in the live schema and closing an auto-healing loop on the DB's own error messages.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
A multi-hop question over a property graph is a query-generation problem, not a similarity-search one. The staff-level move is grounding generation in the live schema and closing an auto-healing loop on the DB's own error messages.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.
