Software Engineer signal: binary search on answer + monotonic predicate in a commerce catalog context. This is a ProdMatch-owned software engineer drill, framed as a April 2026 PhonePe Marketplace simulation, not a copied platform question.
Company context
PhonePe · Marketplace
Freshness
April 2026
Product surface
commerce catalog
ProdMatch interview simulation based on product-team patterns; not a claim of a real company question.
For commerce catalog, choose the minimum processing rate so all products finish before deadline. Each worker can process rate units per minute, rounded up per item.
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Output
Constraints
Concepts
sizes [3,6,7,11], deadline=8 -> 4
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