Marketplace Systems and Analytics Questions

Understand the design and operation of marketplace platforms and the data systems that inform them. Topics include supply and demand dynamics, real time matching or dispatch algorithms, pricing and incentive models, capacity planning, and reliability and latency trade offs for critical infrastructure. Also cover data architecture for capturing marketplace events, pipelines for aggregation and serving, instrumentation for split testing and experiments, metrics used for marketplace decisions, and modeling approaches for forecasting and optimization. Interviewers assess the candidate's ability to reason about algorithmic trade offs, system scalability and observability, and how data drives product and engineering decisions.