Toast SDE-2 Technical Interview Round 1 Maximum Profit Bread Problem
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📌 Problem: Maximum Profit with 5-Day Selling Constraint You are given two integer arrays cost and sales, where: cost[i] represents the cost of making a sourdough bread on day i sales[i] represents the
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📌 Problem: Maximum Profit with 5-Day Selling Constraint You are given two integer arrays cost and sales, where: cost[i] represents the cost of making a sourdough bread on day i sales[i] represents the selling price of bread on day i 🧠
Constraint: A bread made on day i can only be sold on or after day i + 5. 🎯 Goal:
Return the maximum profit achievable by choosing one day to make the bread and a valid future day to sell it. If no profit is possible,
return 0.
About This Question
This is a candidate experience report from a toast interview for a swe role during the phone screen round reported in 2026.
It covers the following topics: Arrays .