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Search relevance gains but pages slow down

Product Management · Prioritization · hard · Reported at Amazon · 20 min

A new Amazon search feature improves an offline relevance metric by 10% but adds two seconds to result-page load time.

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Adapted from a reported Amazon interview question.

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