Restaurant Waitlist and Table Assignment (OOD)

Problem Overview

Design a restaurant waitlist and table assignment, as an OOD exercise you implement in code. Requirements from one phone-screen report: - Waiting parties are first in, first out, but if an 8-person table frees up it goes to an 8-person party first, even if a 2-person party is ahead of…

• 1 candidate-reported follow-up — the exact probes interviewers asked, with the trigger for each
• The rest of the problem statement — full requirements, constraints, and edge cases
• Approach and trade-offs — what passing candidates did, and the mistakes that sink people