Top Two Teams by Points, Then Goal Difference, Then Goals Scored

Company: Capital One

Role: Software Engineer

Category: Coding & Algorithms

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: HR Screen

Overview: Given parallel arrays of wins, draws, goals scored and goals conceded for each team, compute points as three per win plus one per draw and return the indices of the top two teams. Ties are broken by goal difference, then goals scored, then index, testing multi-key comparison and careful tie handling.

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