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Decompose: design a system to route a fleet of delivery trucks.

Looks like an algorithms question; it's actually an operations question wearing one. The candidates who fail reach for 'solve VRP'; the ones who pass design for the 2pm reality that invalidates every morning plan.

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Looks like an algorithms question; it's actually an operations question wearing one. The candidates who fail reach for 'solve VRP'; the ones who pass design for the 2pm reality that invalidates every morning plan.

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