Frontend Engineer signal: dynamic programming + knapsack in a social timeline context. This is a ProdMatch-owned frontend engineer drill, framed as a March 2026 Unacademy Consumer Web simulation, not a copied platform question.
Company context
Unacademy · Consumer Web
Freshness
March 2026
Product surface
social timeline
ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.
Your Consumer Web roadmap has candidate improvements for social timeline. Each improvement has cost, lift and risk. Maximize lift under budget while keeping total risk below a threshold.
Input
Output
Constraints
Concepts
items [[2,5,1],[4,9,4]], budget=4, risk=4 -> 9
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