Daily Interview Problem: Contiguous Subarray with Maximum Sum

Hi, here's your problem today. This problem was recently asked by Twitter:

You are given an array of integers. Find the maximum sum of all possible contiguous subarrays of the array.

Example:

[34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86]

Given this input array, the output should be 137. The contiguous subarray with the largest sum is [42, 14, -5, 86].

Your solution should run in linear time.

Here's a starting point:

def max_subarray_sum(arr):

  # Fill this in.



print max_subarray_sum([34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86])

# 137