30Your pilot wowed the customer. Take it to production: 99.9% SLA, real users, their security team watching. Design the path.▼hard★ EssentialPalantirOpenAIAnthropic2 replies◆ premiumThe capstone FDE question, where every topic in this category shows up as one workstream. The rubric isn't the target architecture; it's whether you can sequence the gap-closing while the customer keeps using the pilot.Open full answer →
56Tell me about a time you balanced model quality against latency or cost in a shipped product.▼hardGoogleOpenAIMeta1 replies◆ premiumAt 100k QPS you cannot 10x the model for a +2% quality bump. This question screens whether you can find the actual operating point under a real constraint and get product, finance, and the customer to agree to it instead of pretending the tradeoff away.Open full answer →
