Design a Ride-and-Drive Event Booking Platform
Last updated: February 21, 2025
Quick Overview
Design a platform that manages Rivian's test drive and adventure event experiences, handling scheduling, vehicle allocation, and post-event follow-up.
Rivian
System Design
Software Engineer
Rivian
February 21, 2025Software Engineer
Onsite - System Design
System Design
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Design a platform that manages Rivian's test drive and adventure event experiences, handling scheduling, vehicle allocation, and post-event follow-up.
Rivian runs experiential events where potential customers can test drive vehicles. This is a more approachable system design question that tests standard booking system patterns with some vehicle-specific twists around fleet readiness and adventure logistics.
What the Interviewer Expects
- Design a booking system with calendar-based availability and waitlisting
- Implement vehicle allocation ensuring test drive vehicles are charged and ready
- Build location-based event discovery and capacity management
- Handle post-event lead tracking and follow-up automation
- Design for seasonal demand spikes and fair access
Key Topics to Cover
Booking and scheduling systems
Inventory and resource allocation
Event management platforms
CRM integration
Demand forecasting
How to Approach This
- Start by clarifying functional and non-functional requirements with the interviewer.
- Estimate the scale: QPS, storage, bandwidth. This drives your design decisions.
- Draw a high-level architecture first, then deep dive into 1-2 critical components.
- Discuss trade-offs explicitly (e.g., consistency vs availability, SQL vs NoSQL).
- Address failure scenarios, monitoring, and how the system handles 10x traffic spikes.
Possible Follow-up Questions
- How do you handle overbooking when cancellation rates are high?
- How would you ensure vehicles are charged and prepped between test drives?
- How do you prevent the same person from booking multiple slots?
- How would you personalize the test drive experience based on booking questionnaire answers?
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Requirements
- Functional Requirements:
- Users can view available ride-and-drive events based on location and dates.
- Users can book test drives and adventure events through an intuitive calendar interfa...
Capacity Estimation
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User Base:
- Assume Rivian runs around 500 events per year, averaging 50 bookings per event.
- Potential user base of 25,000 unique users annually.
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Peak Load Estimation:
- During pe...
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