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Task requirements: You are working in a sports data company, and we would like you to develop a new Live Football World Cup Scoreboard library (or frontend application) that shows all the ongoing matches and their scores. The scoreboard supports the following operations: 1. Start a new game, assuming initial score 0 – 0 and adding it the scoreboard. This should capture following parameters: a. Home team b. Away team 2. Update score. This should receive a pair of absolute scores: home team score and away team score. 3. Finish game currently in progress. This removes a match from the scoreboard. 4. Get a summary of games in progress ordered by their total score. The games with the same total score will be returned ordered by the most recently started match in the scoreboard. For example, if following matches are started in the specified order and their scores respectively updated: a. Mexico 0 - Canada 5 b. Spain 10 - Brazil 2 c. Germany 2 - France 2 d. Uruguay 6 - Italy 6 e. Argentina 3 - Australia 1 The summary should be as follows: 1. Uruguay 6 - Italy 6 2. Spain 10 - Brazil 2 3. Mexico 0 - Canada 5 4. Argentina 3 - Australia 1 5. Germany 2 - France 2
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Interviewed at Sportradar

3.6
Apr 19, 2023

Task requirements: You are working in a sports data company, and we would like you to develop a new Live Football World Cup Scoreboard library (or frontend application) that shows all the ongoing matches and their scores. The scoreboard supports the following operations: 1. Start a new game, assuming initial score 0 – 0 and adding it the scoreboard. This should capture following parameters: a. Home team b. Away team 2. Update score. This should receive a pair of absolute scores: home team score and away team score. 3. Finish game currently in progress. This removes a match from the scoreboard. 4. Get a summary of games in progress ordered by their total score. The games with the same total score will be returned ordered by the most recently started match in the scoreboard. For example, if following matches are started in the specified order and their scores respectively updated: a. Mexico 0 - Canada 5 b. Spain 10 - Brazil 2 c. Germany 2 - France 2 d. Uruguay 6 - Italy 6 e. Argentina 3 - Australia 1 The summary should be as follows: 1. Uruguay 6 - Italy 6 2. Spain 10 - Brazil 2 3. Mexico 0 - Canada 5 4. Argentina 3 - Australia 1 5. Germany 2 - France 2

They gave me a scenario a day prior to interview based on their functionality and asked me to present my solution and alternatives on how I would implement. Led to very good discussion on the merits. Architect and Director on the call challenged some suppositions and gave some insights from their perspectives. They also asked me a specific logic question on a calculation for a UI situation.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at OutSystems

3.8
Dec 17, 2020

They gave me a scenario a day prior to interview based on their functionality and asked me to present my solution and alternatives on how I would implement. Led to very good discussion on the merits. Architect and Director on the call challenged some suppositions and gave some insights from their perspectives. They also asked me a specific logic question on a calculation for a UI situation.

Q1: Please describe a project life cycle Q2: Describe the difference between requirement verification and requirement validation. Q3: Describe a situation where you had to work with a person that was difficult to work with and how you resolved it.
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Lead Software Engineer

Interviewed at GE Aerospace

4.2
Jul 23, 2016

Q1: Please describe a project life cycle Q2: Describe the difference between requirement verification and requirement validation. Q3: Describe a situation where you had to work with a person that was difficult to work with and how you resolved it.

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