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Notifications Greedy Load Rebalancer

Frontend Engineer signal: greedy proof + sorting in a in-app notification tray context. This is a ProdMatch-owned frontend engineer drill, framed as a March 2026 Cars24 Engagement UX simulation, not a copied platform question.

Company context

Cars24 · Engagement UX

Freshness

March 2026

Product surface

in-app notification tray

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

Question

Rebalance notifications across shards for in-app notification tray. Each move has a cost equal to distance between shards. Compute minimum cost to make shard loads differ by at most one.

Input

Array of shard loads.

Output

Minimum movement cost.

Constraints

1 <= shards <= 200000
Total load <= 1e12

Concepts

render scheduling
state graphs
virtualization
greedy proof
sorting
load balancing

loads [0,3,0] -> move one unit left and one right, cost=2

Approach

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Clean Solution

Reveal the approach first.

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Common Mistakes

A greedy idea without a proof may fail hidden cases.
Do not mutate sorted keys in a way that breaks ordering.

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