Interviewer personas.
Different interviewers probe different things. These are generic role archetypes to practice adapting your pitch to, not any real person.
Principal Architect Interviewer
Likely focus: Deep technical fluency in reference architecture, RAG design, evaluation, and LLMOps — expects you to go several layers deep on any component you name.
How to adapt: Lead with a 2-minute reference architecture, then let them pick a component to go deep on rather than pre-emptively over-explaining everything.
Data & Governance Interviewer
Likely focus: Enterprise data foundation maturity — governed ingestion, access control, lineage, quality — and how Gen AI quality depends on it.
How to adapt: Lead with "data foundation before model excitement" and show that retrieval quality is primarily a data-architecture problem, not a model-selection problem.
Delivery & Cost Interviewer
Likely focus: Delivery governance, roadmap realism, budget ownership, and stakeholder alignment across a program, not just one system.
How to adapt: Anchor answers in a concrete roadmap/BoM example and speak explicitly to tradeoffs and sequencing, not just the target-state architecture.
Confidence-Pass Panel
Likely focus: Fluency and composure on material you've already covered — this round tests delivery, not new depth.
How to adapt: Don't introduce new material; tighten and rehearse the answers you already have, and keep every response inside its natural time box.