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The toughest interview questions asked recently

During a recent round of interviews, I was asked these 5 questions that I found particularly interesting / challenging. They each covered a different interesting pieces of computer science that I thought worth sharing. Check them out and see what you think about them: 1. A set of overlapping ranges are provided in [start, end) format. Find the max number of ranges that overlap each given range. Improve your solution to O(N log N) complexity (basic solution is: O(N^2) complexity for a set of ascending ranges [1,4), [2, 4), [3, 4) etc.). 2. Implement a multithreaded producer / consumer queue using condition variables. 3. Implement a multithreaded rate limiter (token bucket with defined capacity) using no hard-coded poll durations and without a background thread for "filling". Discuss fairness vs head of line blocking tradeoffs of the implementation. 4. Implement a multithreaded scheduler that executes tasks repeatedly at specified time intervals which manages task overruns (tas