Metrics question
Glean wants customers to safely compare multiple LLMs before committing one to production. What end-user workflow and admin/API capabilities would you prioritize in v1, what would you leave out, and how would you measure whether the experimentation experience is actually helping customers make better rollout decisions?
- Glean
- Metrics
- Hard
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What this question tests
Tests scoping a v1 experience for safely comparing multiple LLMs before production rollout, prioritizing end-user and admin capabilities, and measuring whether it actually improves rollout decisions.
How to approach it
- Prioritize a side-by-side comparison view for end users to see how the same query performs across candidate models.
- Prioritize an admin-level canary rollout capability to test a new model on a subset of real traffic, plus an API for programmatic evaluation before any end-user exposure.
- Leave out automated model recommendation or scoring, since early admins likely want raw comparative evidence over an opaque recommendation engine.
- Leave out a fully custom evaluation metric builder, defaulting to standard dimensions like relevance and latency instead.
- Measure success by whether admins using the tooling make rollout decisions more confidently and faster, tracked via decision time and post-rollout satisfaction.
- Validate with a design partner running a real model migration decision through the v1 tooling.
What a strong answer includes
- Sequences programmatic evaluation and canary rollout ahead of automated recommendations, since admins likely want raw evidence first.
- Defers a custom metrics builder in favor of standard comparison dimensions, avoiding premature complexity before proven demand.
- Measures success by decision confidence and speed, tying the feature to its actual purpose of improving rollout decisions.
Common mistakes
- Building an automated model-recommendation feature before admins have real comparative evidence to trust it.
- Measuring only tool usage without checking whether it improved actual rollout decision quality.
- Overbuilding a flexible custom metrics system before validating what dimensions admins actually need.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you know if the comparison tool is giving admins a misleading picture?
- What would you add in v2 based on the design partner's migration decision?
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