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an LRU-Based Event Scheduler Screen

Applied IntuitionSoftware Engineer · Technical Screen · Jul 2025

HR reached out to me on LinkedIn, and we scheduled a round right away. Not a tag question. Say you have a job scheduler that processes events. The input is a timeout value and a stream of events, and you need to figure out which events time out. Events come in three modes: start, end, and ping. A ping updates an event's status, and if the time between an event's last update and the current time e…

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