Bounding Boxes of Connected Houses in a Ragged Grid

CodingRipplingLast reported January 2026Low Frequency

Reported: 1× across candidate reports
First seen: January 2026
Last reported: January 2026
Reported outcome: unknown

Problem Overview

The round: one report, from a full-stack intern interview in December 2025: straight into coding after introductions, no behavioural questions. The candidate describes it as similar to the island problems (connected regions in a matrix), with a twist: the matrix is ragged, so every row can have a different length.…

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