36Design an ETA / delivery-time prediction system (ride-share, food delivery, logistics).▼hardUberAmazonGoogle1 replies◆ premiumETA is spatiotemporal regression served in real time over conditions that shift by the minute. The signal is feature freshness, segment or stage decomposition, and the asymmetric cost of being wrong. Here is the design.Open full answer →
07Design an ETA prediction system for a maps or navigation app.▼hardGoogleUberDoorDashunlockedAn ETA is a promise. The interview tests whether you model it as a point estimate (and apologize when it misses) or as a distribution where p90 lets you under-promise, and how you feed live traffic and completed trips back into the model.Open full answer →