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by GFK_of_xmaspast 4386 days ago
I don't see why TSP is at all relevant to Uber, or to any real taxi company either.
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It really isn't. If anything it'd be Djikstra's or other optimized pathfinding algos. Even then, Uber doesn't do its own navigation, it's handled by Google/Apple/etc.

Uber, like most tech companies, is an integrator. Their need to write complex algorithms from scratch is practically nil. Looking for algo synthesis ability in a candidate is a waste.