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Leetcode 42. Trapping Rain Water

Given an array of non-negative heights representing elevation bars of width 1, compute the total units of water that can be trapped between them after raining. The core challenge is determining, for each position, the bounding left and right maxima to accumulate trapped volume efficiently (ideally in linear time).

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Goldman Sachs

Microsoft

Microsoft

Bloomberg

Bloomberg

Amazon

Amazon


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Mid March, 2026

Bloomberg

Bloomberg

Senior

Early March, 2026

Microsoft

Microsoft

Mid-level

Mid February, 2026

Bloomberg

Bloomberg

Mid-level

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