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DIY: Employee Free Time

Explore how to identify common free time intervals among multiple employees by analyzing their schedules. This lesson helps you understand interval merging and sorting techniques critical for solving calendar-related coding problems often asked in interviews.

Problem statement

We are given a list containing the schedules of multiple people. Each person’s schedule is a list of non-overlapping intervals in sorted order. An interval is specified with the start time and an end time, both being positive integers. Your task is to find the list of intervals representing the free time for all the people. We are not interested in the interval from negative infinity to zero ...