Ride Sharing and Marketplace Systems Questions

Covers the domain specific architecture and scaling considerations for marketplace platforms and ride sharing systems. Topics include design and operation of real time matching engines, geospatial services, pricing and incentive mechanisms, payment processing, driver and rider operations, and customer facing platforms. Candidates should be able to discuss supply and demand balancing, market liquidity, incentive design, latency and throughput constraints, capacity planning, failure modes and recovery, observability and incident response, test and simulation strategies, and the trade offs between reliability cost and operational complexity. Also include how engineering investments and platform decisions influence marketplace dynamics and company growth.