OpenAIVerified interview challenge
Debug a human and AI task router
Find routing bugs that assign work to an ineligible worker or leave eligible work pending.
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A task router assigns work to human and AI workers with different capabilities, clearance levels and available capacity. Tasks also have dependencies, deadlines and restrictions on who may perform them.
Inspect the implementation against those rules and explain which assignments it can get wrong. The exercise asks for focused fixes to the routing function, with careful attention to the difference between assigning work and completing it.
What you'll practise
Combined eligibility rules
Trace how several task and worker requirements must hold at the same time.
State transitions
Check that assigning work does not incorrectly satisfy dependencies or exceed capacity.
Explain each defect, its consequence and the proposed correction.