Design Retrieval-Augmented Answers from a Document Vault

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Design a document-vault question-answering service that returns grounded responses with citations while preserving tenant and document permissions. Cover versioned ingestion, retrieval quality, exact provenance, deletion and freshness, conflicting evidence, prompt injection, abstention, and evaluation.

Design Retrieval-Augmented Answers from a Document Vault

Company: Harvey

Role: Software Engineer

Category: ML System Design

Difficulty: hard

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: Design a document-vault question-answering service that returns grounded responses with citations while preserving tenant and document permissions. Cover versioned ingestion, retrieval quality, exact provenance, deletion and freshness, conflicting evidence, prompt injection, abstention, and evaluation.

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Jul 27, 2026
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