Design a Ride-Hailing Platform
Company: Oracle
Role: Software Engineer
Category: System Design
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Onsite
Design a large-scale ride-hailing platform similar to a taxi-booking app. The system should allow riders to request trips, match them with nearby drivers, track driver and rider locations in real time, manage trip state transitions, and support high traffic across many cities. Discuss requirements, APIs, storage, driver matching, live location updates, scalability bottlenecks, fault tolerance, and key trade-offs.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates system design and distributed systems competencies, focusing on real-time location tracking, scalable API and storage design, driver-rider matching logic, trip state management, and fault tolerance.