How should I practice Maximum Product of Three Numbers?

Start by reading the full statement, solve the visible examples, then compare the pattern against related Bloomberg LP phone screen problems in FastPrep.

Is Maximum Product of Three Numbers associated with Bloomberg LP?

FastPrep tags this as a Bloomberg LP phone screen coding practice problem when the problem catalog has that company and stage context.

Maximum Product of Three Numbers

Bloomberg LP● EasyNEW GRADPHONE SCREEN

Learn

Problem statement

Choose exactly three distinct indices from nums. Return the maximum product of the three selected values as a signed 64-bit integer.

Function

maximumProductOfThree(nums: int[]) → long

Examples

Example 1

nums = [-10,-10,1,3,2]return = 300

The two negative values and 3 produce 300.

Constraints

3 <= nums.length <= 10^5.
Values fit in signed 32-bit integers.