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DIY: Time Needed to Inform All Employees

Understand how to model and solve problems involving hierarchical communication in a company. Learn to implement a C# function that calculates the total time needed for a message from the head to reach all employees, considering each employee's informing time and direct manager relationships.

Problem statement

A company has n employees, and each employee has a unique ID from 0 to n - 1. The ID of the head of the company is headID.

Each employee has one direct manager given in the manager array. In the manager array, manager[i] is the direct manager of the i-th employee, ...