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Stopping double bookings when two jobs overlap
Alok Verma, Operations Scheduling Engineer at TaskMaster
Alok Verma is an engineer at TaskMaster, an app that sends workers to your home for AC repair, plumbing and deep cleaning in eight Indian cities. It is 9:15 AM on a hot Saturday in May. The support dashboard has turned red, with over 320 complaints about workers being booked twice at the same time.
The question
How do we write a Python check that finds overlapping time slots and adds travel time between jobs, so a worker is never booked twice?
- Interval overlap logic
- Datetime arithmetic
- Schedule sorting
- Capacity allocation
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