Search⌘ K

DIY: Time Needed to Inform All Employees

Understand how to compute the time needed for an urgent message to reach all employees in a company with a hierarchical structure. Learn to implement a function that uses the manager and inform time arrays to calculate the total minutes required for communication to spread from the head to every subordinate.

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, ...