Hello!

We cannot wait to have you on-board in our team, but before that, we have designed a ticket, with exact similar structure of what we have in our Jira board for the team. This will help you to know more about us, too. You can imagine the future-you to take one or more of these tickets in every sprint.

Ticket name: SOPHI-777: Competition Scoreboard

Background:

There will be a writing competition held by The Globe and Mail before the new year for young journalism interns. We need to create a scoreboard to show the competition results. You will implement the API part that reads a file from our data-science scoring components. A frontend developer will pickup your work and implement the UI for it.

Goal:

Your project should read the input file and present the data in one REST endpoint.

Expected Deliverables:

• One Rest Endpoint that represents total score of every single author in json format sorted descending by "Competition Score" and “Date Submitted”
• Set of unit-tests that proves validity of your code.
• A multi-stage Dockerfile that builds and runs your project
• Markdown documentation, describing the necessary things, i.e. How to run the code.

Technical Notes:

• Your choice of Scala libraries would impress us. If you'd explain your reasoning the Markdown file, it would help us understand more. Please add libraries when only needed.

• The goal of your code is not be short, but is the coding style to be expressive and comprehensive enough in a functional way.

• Software design patterns, always and forever.

• Scaladocs are mandatory. Please have them in your code. You don’t need to generate the actual docs.

• You’re given a CSV file that might have unexpected values in any of the fields These are the columns:

  • Article Name (String)
  • Date Submitted (Timestamp)
  • Article ID (uuid4)
  • Author(s) name (Set of Strings splitted by semi-column)
  • Freelancer/in-house/wire (List of Strings splitted by semi-column)
  • Popularity index (Double)
  • Readership index (Double)
  • Total Engagement Time (Duration)

• Competition Score: Total Engagement Time in seconds * (Popularity index + Readership index)

• The person that runs your code (i.e. a platform engineer), only knows Docker. He attaches a Docker volume to your container to provide the input. He reads your Markdown documents to build and run your image.

• If you are to use Scala, please use Scala 2.12.6 and sbt version of your choice. If you are to use Java, use Java 14, If you are to use Python use Python 3.7

Solution Submission:

• Please fork this repository as a private repository. It is important to keep your solution in a private repository to avoid other potential candidates accessing your solutions.
• Whenever feeling comfortable, you can create a pull request in your repository and add robertdecaire and bsayed-tgam as the reviewers.
• When you submit your pull request, robertdecaire will add some other team members. The team will review your code. We try to keep our comments limited.
• You have the choice of addressing the comments and squashing your commits into one. The way you handle the comments is important to us.

Good luck!