Logistics & Marketplace Dynamics Topics
Covers logistics management, supply chain operations, fulfillment, inventory optimization, carrier selection, distribution strategies, and marketplace dynamics including platform-based marketplaces, seller/buyer interactions, pricing, demand forecasting, competition, and marketplace optimization. This category also addresses cross-functional implications for product, operations, and business strategy in both physical and digital marketplace contexts.
Marketplace Systems and Analytics
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.
Ride Sharing and Marketplace Systems
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.