Clarify and Design a Streaming Top-K Tracker

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Turn an underspecified streaming top-k request into a precise ranking and time-window contract, then compare heap, ordered-count, and bounded-bucket designs across updates, queries, ties, and expiration.

Clarify and Design a Streaming Top-K Tracker

Company: NVIDIA

Role: Software Engineer

Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Technical Screen

Overview: Turn an underspecified streaming top-k request into a precise ranking and time-window contract, then compare heap, ordered-count, and bounded-bucket designs across updates, queries, ties, and expiration.

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