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Standard~2h

Your team maintains an internal alert triage service. Each incoming alert carries five severity tags — tokens composed of a level indicator and a category code (e.g. 4♤ 5♡ 7♧ 8♢ J♧). The ranking rules for these tag sets follow standard poker hand rankings.

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Starter~2h

An internal billing system assigns sequential period numbers to billing cycles. Some periods are designated as extended — they receive an extra processing day for reconciliation.

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Advanced~3h

An online retailer sells five distinct product SKUs. Each item costs $8 at full price. To encourage bundle purchases, the retailer offers tiered discounts when a customer buys distinct items together:

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Starter~2h

Convert an encoded payload, represented as a sequence of symbol values in one radix, to any other radix.

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Standard~2h

You are building a roster system for a developer training academy. Participants are assigned to numbered cohorts based on their experience track. The program coordinator needs to view participants grouped by cohort, with each cohort's list sorted alphabeticall…

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Standard~2h

Correctly determine the fewest number of coins needed to make an exact target amount from a supplied denomination list.

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Starter~2h

You are building a decoder for a legacy industrial robot controller. The controller receives a continuous stream of 3-character instruction codes. Each triplet maps to a named operation:

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Standard~3h

Implement a function that encodes plain English text into commit jargon. Your team uses an internal shorthand for obfuscating draft commit messages before they reach the shared log. The encoding follows a small set of deterministic rules applied word-by-word.

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Starter~2h

You are working on a small internal tool that compares two configuration snapshots.

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Starter~2h

You are cleaning imported contact records before they are saved into a CRM. Each record includes a freeform phone field entered by a human, so the data can contain spaces, dots, parentheses, hyphens, and an optional leading country code of 1.

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Standard~2h

Output the lyrics to 'The Twelve Days of Christmas'. ``text On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

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Starter~2h

Classify a delivery drop-off location into the correct fee tier based on its distance from the warehouse.

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Starter~2h

Calculate the date of scheduled deployment windows. Teams often schedule recurring deployment windows on a specific day of the week each month. In this exercise, you will take a description of a deployment window date and return the actual date it falls on.

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Standard~2h

Refactor an expense report formatter. The expense report exercise is a refactoring exercise. There is code that prints a nicely formatted expense report, given a locale (American or Dutch) and a currency (US dollar or euro).

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Starter~2h

A maritime signal station transmits messages using a sequence of signal flags. A numeric transmission code determines which flags to raise and in what order.

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Standard~2h

Identify grid crossovers in an operations matrix. A grid crossover is a cell whose value is greater than or equal to every value in its row and less than or equal to every value in its column.

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Standard~2h

In a grid hunt challenge you scan a rectangular field of characters to locate hidden target strings.

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Starter~2h

Implement a Steps function that computes how many cascade steps a hailstone particle takes to reach unit mass.

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Starter~2h

Implement the response logic for a basic help-desk chatbot. The bot handles incoming support messages and replies with one of five canned responses based on the message content.

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Standard~2h

An internal post-mortem tool reconstructs incident chains. Each step in the chain describes an event and how it caused the next, building a cumulative narrative from the root cause forward.

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Advanced~3h

An invoicing system needs to print amounts in words on official documents. Given an integer from 0 to 999,999,999,999, return its English representation.

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Starter~2h

Compile a standings table from match results for a small sports league. Given a list of match results, produce a formatted standings table. Each result line contains two team names and an outcome, separated by semicolons:

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Standard~2h

Simulate a ledger account supporting opening, closing, withdrawals, and deposits of money. Watch out for concurrent transactions!

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Advanced~3h

Read the digits shown on an industrial meter's segment display. Each digit is rendered as a 3-column x 4-row pattern of pipes (|), underscores (_), and spaces. Parse these patterns and return the corresponding numeric string.

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Advanced~3h

Implement a metric dependency network. In monitoring systems, metrics often depend on other metrics. A source metric is collected directly (e.g. CPU usage), while a derived metric is computed from one or more upstream metrics (e.g.

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Starter~2h

The parcel reference checksum process is used to validate operational parcel identifiers. These normally contain dashes and look like: 3-598-21508-8

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Starter~2h

Given a layout diagram, determine which plants belong to each tenant in a shared rooftop planter.

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Starter~2h

You are cleaning up a legacy priority table used by an internal routing tool. The old format groups item codes by integer priority. The new format needs a direct lookup from item code to priority.

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Starter~2h

A product team tracks how quickly a release ages across several cadence tiers. Given an age in seconds, calculate how old that release would be on: