Metrics question
Define success metrics for the Airbnb traveler booking experience.
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What this question tests
Funnel and satisfaction metric design for a marketplace booking flow.
How to approach it
- State the goal: help travelers find and book the right stay with confidence and minimal friction.
- Propose funnel metrics: search-to-listing-view rate, listing-view-to-booking-request rate, and booking completion rate.
- Propose quality metrics: post-stay review rating and rebooking rate.
- Propose a north star, e.g. completed bookings per searching traveler.
- Add cancellation rate as a guardrail, since a fast booking that gets cancelled isn't real success.
- Note how you'd weigh booking speed against booking fit.
What a strong answer includes
- Builds a full funnel from search to completed stay, not just booking count.
- Includes post-stay signals, review rating and rebooking, since a booking isn't success if the stay disappoints.
- Names cancellation rate as a guardrail against optimizing bookings that don't stick.
- Picks a north star, completed bookings per searcher, that ties discovery and conversion together.
Common mistakes
- Measuring only booking volume without any post-stay satisfaction signal.
- Ignoring cancellation or guardrail metrics that would catch a hollow increase in bookings.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would you weigh booking speed against booking quality or fit?
- What would you do if bookings are up but reviews are down?
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