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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