
Harvey system design (LLM applications) interview
Round 5 of 7 · 3 questions reported
- Length
- 60 min
- Format
- Design discussion on a whiteboard or doc
- They grade
- Retrieval, evaluation, multi-tenancy, confidentiality between clients and faithful answers with citations
- Heads-up
- A reported prompt: answers over a law firm's private documents that cite the exact clause. Other loops get a document store with organization-level access control (like Harvey's Vault) instead, so prepare a storage design as well as a RAG design. Often held in the San Francisco office with the project walkthrough, while coding and values run over video.
Questions Harvey asks in this round 3
About the Harvey system design (LLM applications) round
What does Harvey ask in the system design (LLM applications) round?
The most asked: Document store with drive sync and org ACLs, Rule-driven file review agent and Design a multi-agent system that redlines a contract against a playbook.
How long is the Harvey system design (LLM applications) round?
About 60 minutes.
What is the Harvey system design (LLM applications) round like?
Design discussion on a whiteboard or doc. They grade: Retrieval, evaluation, multi-tenancy, confidentiality between clients and faithful answers with citations.