Software Engineer signal: shortest path + weighted graph in a product search context. This is a ProdMatch-owned software engineer drill, framed as a May 2026 Uber Search Quality simulation, not a copied platform question.
Company context
Uber · Search Quality
Freshness
May 2026
Product surface
product search
ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.
In product search, entities are connected by weighted evidence edges. For each query, find the least-cost evidence path from source to target while avoiding blocked entities.
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Concepts
0-1 cost 2, 1-2 cost 3, query 0->2 -> 5
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