Maplebear Inc.

Alicia Wei

Jaclyn Tandler

Aakash Singh

Gareth Pennington

Shengwen Fang

Calder Hayes

An online concierge system provides orders to a picker who fulfills the order by delivering items from the order to a customer. Customers provide feedback to the online concierge system about pickers, which is used when the online concierge system allocates orders to pickers. In some cases, negative feedback may be caused by conditions external to a picker, such as weather conditions or an inability to access the online concierge system. To avoid penalizing pickers because of external conditions, the online concierge system identifies forgiveness events when external conditions affect order fulfillment. Feedback affected by a forgiveness event is identified by the online concierge system when evaluating pickers. To facilitate matching of feedback to forgiveness events, a forgiveness event table indexes identified forgiveness events to reduce computing complexity and resources, while simplifying addition of new forgiveness events.

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Alicia Wei