Code RoomPay range per team
MediumPrep Room Coding #5025

Pay range per team

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~10 min

Given `staff` with columns `name`, `team`, `salary`, `hired` and `manager`, return the lowest and highest `salary` on each `team` as `lo` and `hi`. Return `team`, `lo` and `hi`, sorted by `team` ascending.

Implement
pay_range(staff: dataframe) → dataframe
Examples
in[{"__df__":[{"name":"Ada","team":"eng","hired":"2021-03-01","salary":120,"manager":"Grace"},{"name":"Grace","team":"eng","hired":"2019-06-15","salary":150,"manager":null},{"name":"Linus","team":"eng","hired":"2022-01-10","salary":95,"manager":"Grace"},{"name":"Mel","team":"sales","hired":"2020-11-05","salary":80,"manager":"Kay"},{"name":"Kay","team":"sales","hired":"2018-02-20","salary":110,"manager":null},{"name":"Ivan","team":"sales","hired":"2023-07-01","salary":80,"manager":"Kay"},{"name":"Jean","team":"design","hired":"2021-09-30","salary":105,"manager":null},{"name":"Nia","team":"design","hired":"2022-05-04","salary":140,"manager":"Jean"},{"name":"Omar","team":"sales","hired":"2021-01-08","salary":125,"manager":"Kay"}]}]out[{"hi":140,"lo":105,"team":"design"},{"hi":150,"lo":95,"team":"eng"},{"hi":125,"lo":80,"team":"sales"}]
What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

0:00 of about 10 min
InputExpectedGot
[{"__df__":[{"name":"Ada","team":"eng","hired":"2021-03-01","salary":120,"manager":"Grace"},{"name":"Grace","team":"eng","hired":"2019-06-15","salary":150,"manager":null},{"name":"Linus","team":"eng","hired":"2022-01-10","salary":95,"manager":"Grace"},{"name":"Mel","team":"sales","hired":"2020-11-05","salary":80,"manager":"Kay"},{"name":"Kay","team":"sales","hired":"2018-02-20","salary":110,"manager":null},{"name":"Ivan","team":"sales","hired":"2023-07-01","salary":80,"manager":"Kay"},{"name":"Jean","team":"design","hired":"2021-09-30","salary":105,"manager":null},{"name":"Nia","team":"design","hired":"2022-05-04","salary":140,"manager":"Jean"},{"name":"Omar","team":"sales","hired":"2021-01-08","salary":125,"manager":"Kay"}]}][{"hi":140,"lo":105,"team":"design"},{"hi":150,"lo":95,"team":"eng"},{"hi":125,"lo":80,"team":"sales"}]not run yetsample