Experiments were carried out to better explain the role of air-jet vortex generators (AJVGs) in modifying the mechanisms that govern a strongly separated shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interaction (SWBLI). A \(24^o\) compression-ramp interaction at Mach 2.52 and \(Re_\theta = 8225\) served as the baseline case. Three different jet-spacing AJVGs were adopted to incite varying degrees of interaction with the SWBLI. Velocity measurements at streamwise/wall-normal and streamwise/spanwise planes were conducted using PIV and the obtained datasets were decomposed using the snapshot-POD algorithm. The POD analysis shows that the eigenspectra and the corresponding mode shapes are similar for all tested cases. Thus, despite the varying degrees of interaction and separation-control effectiveness, AJVGs do not seem to modify the structure and mechanisms of strongly separated SWBLIs.