Code RoomDistance from the team average
HardPrep Room Coding #5047

Distance from the team average

CodingAlgorithms & data structuresSenior–Staff~12 min

Given `staff` with columns `name`, `team`, `salary`, `hired` and `manager`, return how far each person `salary` sits from their own team mean as `diff`, rounded to two decimal places. Return `name` and `diff`, sorted by `name` ascending.

Implement
pay_vs_team(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[{"diff":-1.67,"name":"Ada"},{"diff":28.33,"name":"Grace"},{"diff":-18.75,"name":"Ivan"},{"diff":-17.5,"name":"Jean"},{"diff":11.25,"name":"Kay"},{"diff":-26.67,"name":"Linus"},{"diff":-18.75,"name":"Mel"},{"diff":17.5,"name":"Nia"},{"diff":26.25,"name":"Omar"}]
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 12 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"}]}][{"diff":-1.67,"name":"Ada"},{"diff":28.33,"name":"Grace"},{"diff":-18.75,"name":"Ivan"},{"diff":-17.5,"name":"Jean"},{"diff":11.25,"name":"Kay"},{"diff":-26.67,"name":"Linus"},{"diff":-18.75,"name":"Mel"},{"diff":17.5,"name":"Nia"},{"diff":26.25,"name":"Omar"}]not run yetsample