Task Schedulers

The scheduler question has shown up at Scale AI both as an online assessment and as a phone screen. It starts small. You write a service that returns the next task to work on. Then the spec grows. A task can wait on other tasks, and each new part builds on the class you already wrote.

Because the parts stack, your choice in part one shapes the rest. Pick the data structure with the later rules in mind, then write the smallest class that passes and move on. If you have to rebuild the class for part two, you lose time you'll want for the dependency rules.

There's also an older, simpler version. Its loop is short, but the printed log has to match to the character, so check the exact output format before you write the loop.

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