The Quiet Hours
A medium Python mock interview question on DataDriven, with an AI interviewer who asks follow-up questions and a hire or no-hire decision at the end.
- Domain
- Python
- Difficulty
- medium
- Seniority
- mid
Interview Prompt
A monitoring service records maintenance windows as `[start, end]` minute offsets in `windows`, in no particular order. Collapse them into the fewest windows that cover the same time, earliest first.
Summary
Overlapping outages hide how much time is really dark. Collapse them into the truth.
How This Interview Works
- Read the vague prompt (just like a real interview)
- Ask clarifying questions to the AI interviewer
- Write and run your Python against test cases
- Answer the interviewer's follow-up questions, then get a hire or no-hire decision