Graphshard70 minDevOps / SRE Engineer

Incident Evidence Path Finder

DevOps / SRE Engineer signal: shortest path + weighted graph in a incident correlation context. This is a ProdMatch-owned devops sre drill, framed as a March 2026 Nykaa Reliability simulation, not a copied platform question.

Company context

Nykaa · Reliability

Freshness

March 2026

Product surface

incident correlation

ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.

Question

In incident correlation, entities are connected by weighted evidence edges. For each query, find the least-cost evidence path from source to target while avoiding blocked entities.

Input

Weighted graph, blocked set, and q source-target queries.

Output

Minimum cost per query, or -1 if unreachable.

Constraints

1 <= nodes <= 100000
1 <= edges <= 300000
1 <= queries <= 100000
All weights are non-negative.

Concepts

blast-radius graphs
alert dedupe
rolling windows
shortest path
weighted graph
retrieval quality

0-1 cost 2, 1-2 cost 3, query 0->2 -> 5

Approach

Try framing your own approach first. The 30 seconds you think before peeking is where learning happens.

Clean Solution

Reveal the approach first.

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Common Mistakes

Mark visited when enqueueing, not after repeated dequeue.
Do not ignore disconnected components if the product surface can have them.

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