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Employees Earning More Than Their Managers

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Easy · linear scan solution for Employees Earning More Than Their Managers. Python, Go, and a step-by-step animation.

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Problem

Read the prompt, flip through the examples, then steal the idea.

LeetCode 181. Employees Earning More Than Their Managers. The copyrighted prompt is on LeetCode. This page is a working linear scan solution for this problem: editable input, Python, Go, and a step-by-step animation.

Constraints

  • —Player inputs are capped so the animation stays readable.
  • —Match LeetCode's own constraints when you submit there.

Examples

Input

nums =
[2, 1, 5, 3]

Output

5

A single pass keeps the running maximum. 5 wins.

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Solution

Python and Go. The walkthrough below runs this same code.

Approach 1Optimal▶ Animated

Employees Earning More Than Their Managers — linear scan

Keep a running answer while you walk the array once. Built for LeetCode 181. Employees Earning More Than Their Managers.

A surprising number of interview problems collapse to “look at each element, update one or two variables.” Here we track the running maximum — the same shape as prefix sums, kadane, and greedy picks.

Algorithm

  1. Seed best with the first element.
  2. For each later x, set best = max(best, x).
  3. Return best.
Time
O(n)
Space
O(1)
Solution.py
class Solution:    def employeesEarningMoreThanTheirManagers(self, nums: list[int]) -> int:        best = nums[0]        for x in nums[1:]:            if x > best:                best = x        return best
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Interactive walkthrough

Playing “Employees Earning More Than Their Managers — linear scan”. Edit the input, hit Run, then scrub.

Approach: Employees Earning More Than Their Managers — linear scan

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