Sort by two keys in Java

Java interview exercise on Streams & lambdas, difficulty 2 of 3. Solve it in the editor beside a worked example; the tests run the moment you do.

Given record Person(String name, int age), write sortPeople(people) that returns the people sorted by age descending and, for the same age, by name ascending, as a new list. Build the comparator with Comparator.comparingInt, reversed() and thenComparing.

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