Define and integrate room ranking factors
Company: Uber
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Analytics & Experimentation
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Propose a ranking system for assigning rooms to meeting requests. Identify and justify priority factors such as room usage count, historical meeting duration fit, capacity match, equipment availability, and proximity. Describe how to combine these into a scoring function, how to handle cold-start and ties, and how you would run an experiment (e.g., A/B test) to validate and tune the weights.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates knowledge of feature engineering, ranking and scoring systems, normalization and weighting of signals, cold-start handling, and experimental validation in the context of assigning rooms to meeting requests.