Boa rapa

yeah I would have gone about it differently if they included a statement about not modifying the signature

That's interesting.

You are right and you should mark your reply as ISSUE because it is surely broken. In the example which you have posted I hace found this as the greatest sum subsequence [13, -2, 25, 21, 29, 23, -7, -8, 22, 14, 23, -23, 11, 25, 30, 14] whichhives sum of 210. And 0 should be returned only if the list is made up of only negative numbers or is empty.

Because [4, -1, 2, 1] is the subsequence with the greatest sum (6) in [-2, 1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1, -5, 4].

Any other subsequenc would have lower sum than that for example

• [4, -1, 2, 1, -5] sums up to 1
• [-3, 4, -1, 2, 1] sums up to 3
• [1, -3, 4] sums up to 2
• [1, -3, 4, -1, 2, 1] sums up to 4

So you have to find the subsequence of any length that produces the greatest sum.

You have probably wrong condition for handling input value and you are throwing extra Exceptions when it is not intended.

That was my problem - I've looked up the condition and turned out that in one extra case I threw an exception.