CodingHardcod-g849

Subject Sorting variantsLevel Senior–Staff~45 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Given an integer array nums and two integers lower and upper, count the number of contiguous subarrays whose sum lies in the inclusive range [lower, upper]. The array may contain negatives and zeros and can be empty. Return the count.

Implement

count_range_sum(nums: list[int], lower: int, upper: int) → int

Examples

in[[-2,5,-1],-2,2]out3

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.

Learn the concepts

Vibe coding: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach. Generating runnable code from your description is coming next.

Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.