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Technical2026-08-12

Implement functionality for an app using data structures such as maps and heaps

AI-Expanded — inferred from the question title, not from the original candidate report

Design a real-time task scheduler that tracks incoming requests with associated priority levels and expiration timestamps. Use a hash map to provide constant-time lookups for task status and a min-heap to efficiently retrieve and process the highest-priority task that has not yet expired.

Context & Summary

First round was a DSA round with medium-level questions, focusing on implementing app functionality using data structures like maps and heaps.

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