Design a Search Engine
Design a Search Engine — A Staff+ playbook focused on index pipeline ownership, relevance tuning tradeoffs, freshness vs completeness, and search infrastructure as a platform problem — not just Elasticsearch setup.
This playbook is part of the full calibration library.
Staff interviews are decided on nuance — tradeoff framing, ownership boundaries, and failure anticipation. This topic includes evaluator-grade breakdowns and drill sections available with full calibration access.
What's inside this playbook
- •Staff-level tradeoff analysis and failure mode reasoning
- •L5 vs L6 calibration tables for this specific topic
- •Practice drills with Staff-level evaluation criteria
- •Deep-dive appendices and operational ownership patterns