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Salaries Above Average

MediumPython

Problem

Find employees with salaries greater than the average salary in their respective departments.

Asked in the Technical round 2 stage. Implement the solution.

Input and Output

employees is a list of records in the form [name, department, salary]. Return employee names in their original order. An employee whose salary equals the department average is not included.

Constraints

  • 0 <= len(employees) <= 10^4
  • Each record has the form [name, department, salary]
  • Names and department identifiers are strings
  • Salaries are non-negative integers

Function Signature

def employees_above_department_average(employees):
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