1p3a Question · Oct 2025 · Paris

Time-Based Key-Value Store with Production Testing

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The Challenge You need to build a "Time Map" data structure. This system stores a Key and a Value, but it also records when that value was saved (a timestamp). Later, you need to look up a valu

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This is a reported interview question from a openai interview for a swe role reported in 2025.

It covers the following topics: Hash Table, Key-Value Store, Strings, Binary Search, Sorting, System Design, Hash Table, Binary Search .

Difficulty rating: Easy