Problem Statement (English original)You are given a current working directory cwd (an absolute Unix-style path) and a cd(arg) string which can be either an absolute path (starts with /) or a relative path (may include segments . and ..).Implement a function that returns the normalized absolute path after applying cd(arg) from cwd. Rules: Examples (from…

You are given a 2-D grid representing two elevators (left elevator A, right elevator B).Each cell may contain a digit representing the number of people waiting on that floor for that elevator. Example grid: Legend: You are also given a query describing a request: Task Given the grid and a request in the format: Write…

You are given a list of users, each with a start time and an end time.For each time interval where the set of active users changes, output: Input Example Output Example Convert all start/end into events: Sort events and sweep from left to right.Maintain an active user set: Between consecutive event times, output a time…

Given a log file, find the top N most talkative users Parse each line, extract username and message, count words, aggregate per user in a map, sort by total word count (desc), return top N. Given a chat log, count how many words each user has spoken and return the top N most talkative users….

You have a list of meetings in your calendar with a start and end time. You are very busy, so meetings can overlap. You also have one “Do Not Schedule”(DNS) interval during which you don’t attend any meeting. Any meeting schedule that overlaps with a DNS slot is automatically cut such that it does not…

📌 Part A — Tree Islands Problem Question:In a tree of zeros and ones, an island is defined as a group of ones that are surrounded by zeros or are at the boundary of the tree. Example: Find the number of islands in the tree. In the above example, there are 4 islands. 📌 Part…

This task requires you to sort characters in a string by: ✅ Rules ✅ Approach This tests basic algorithm design and comfort with the language, without relying heavily on advanced libraries. The VOprep team has long accompanied candidates through various major company OAs and VOs, including OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Citadel, SIG, providing real-time voice assistance, remote practice,…

Warmup Section Imagine you have a robot that sends status messages that humans will read in real time.The raw messages are hard to read for a human because there are often many messages produced in short periods of time. One idea to make them more readable is to remove the duplicate messages over a 10-second…

Given an English-language text and the width of a page, find how many lines the text would take on that page. Given a text that you’d like to place into a two-column table on a fixed-width page, find the best column width that minimizes the overall table height. Subproblem 1 (line count): Given page width,…

Here we have an event log file produced by a Friends service, e.g.: Given a list of all users and the logs above, implement a function that returns the earliest timestamp at which every user became reachable from every other user via friendship connections (i.e., when the social graph first became fully connected).If the graph…