Code RoomRank pay within each team
MediumPrep Room Coding #5045

Rank pay within each team

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresMid–Senior~11 min

Given `staff` with columns `name`, `team`, `salary`, `hired` and `manager`, rank each person by `salary` within their `team`, highest first, using dense ranking so ties share a rank. Return `name`, `team` and `rank` as an integer, sorted by `team` ascending and then `rank` ascending and then `name` ascending.

Implement
pay_rank(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[{"name":"Nia","rank":1,"team":"design"},{"name":"Jean","rank":2,"team":"design"},{"name":"Grace","rank":1,"team":"eng"},{"name":"Ada","rank":2,"team":"eng"},{"name":"Linus","rank":3,"team":"eng"},{"name":"Omar","rank":1,"team":"sales"},{"name":"Kay","rank":2,"team":"sales"},{"name":"Ivan","rank":3,"team":"sales"},{"name":"Mel","rank":3,"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 11 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"}]}][{"name":"Nia","rank":1,"team":"design"},{"name":"Jean","rank":2,"team":"design"},{"name":"Grace","rank":1,"team":"eng"},{"name":"Ada","rank":2,"team":"eng"},{"name":"Linus","rank":3,"team":"eng"},{"name":"Omar","rank":1,"team":"sales"},{"name":"Kay","rank":2,"team":"sales"},{"name":"Ivan","rank":3,"team":"sales"},{"name":"Mel","rank":3,"team":"sales"}]not run yetsample