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The Context

Glints first developed as a self-serve job marketplace platform where employers post jobs that candidates can apply to.

We later realised that employers are willing to pay for certain kinds of hiring such as mass recruitment and niche roles that required recruiters' skillset, and so we set up a recruitment business unit to service this segment of clients. As part of the setup, we built a tool, Superpowered, that allowed our recruiters to manage the talent pipeline for their clients' job openings.

We have 2 squads of engineers, 1 working on Superpowered and the other on the job marketplace platform.

Over time, while the paid recruitment service grew exponentially, it created a product debt where the employers, jobs and talent acquired under the service diverged from those on the job marketplace platform, because the recruitment business unit have their own sales teams to source and close customers.

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Is It Open?

To align with what we use at Glints, we'd prefer you use React on the frontend, Node.js on the backend and Postgres as the database, with Typescript if you are confident. If you’re a frontend developer with no backend background, Firebase is always an option, but a more suitable stack will definitely earn you bonus points.

This is the raw data for restaurant opening hours - (https://gist.githubusercontent.com/seahyc/7ee4da8a3fb75a13739bdf5549172b1f/raw/f1c3084250b1cb263198e433ae36ba8d7a0d9ea9/hours.csv). Treat it as a raw data source that you can extract, transform and load into your database.

Build a simple user-facing webapp that allows the user to filter for restaurants open by date time as well as restaurant name. On top of that, users can save restaurants into their own named collections (eg. Vegetarian favourites, Meat-lovers etc.).

Bonus

*This is optional, it just serves as an additional proof point. Even if you submit without these features, we will consider the submission comple

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Finding the Next Unicorn

You work at a venture capital firm, HardBank, which is hell-bent on finding the next unicorn startup to invest in. They appointed you to build a tool to search through all the startups for patterns of success and failure. If it works, they’ll also open it up for public access.

Your general partner, Mahayoshi Sonny, dumped you a json file of company profiles (https://ufile.io/gzpnra8msk1s902) that his data team has assiduously compiled over many years.

He’d like you to build an API server, with documentation and a backing relational database that will allow any client to navigate through that sea of data easily, and intuitively. The front-end team will later use that documentation to build the front-end clients.

The choice of the language and server framework is up to your discretion, you just need to explain your decision later. As for database, you can pick any so long as it is a relational database. In the dataset, each company has many attributes, but for this projec

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General Brief

This assignment has 2 parts to it. You may attempt the bonus section, which will definitely add to the final score if well-executed upon.

Main Task

Implement this part of the task with Apache Spark using Docker. Given a set of keywords, find the top k most similar documents among a set of N documents from the dataset - (click this link to download all-the-news.zip), using Apache Spark and Docker. Your Apache Spark setup should consist of more than 1 slave.

Your submission:

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General Brief

There are 3 questions in this part.

There's no time limit, but do time yourself for every question beginning from the time you start reading it till your final local commit, and let us know how long you took for each question in your README.

Task 1: The Trigram

Given a large chunk of text, write a program that can identify the most frequently occurring trigram in it. If there are multiple trigrams with the same frequency, then print the one which occurs first. Assume that trigrams are groups of three consecutive words in the same sentence which are separated by nothing but a single space and are case insensitive.

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General Brief

There are 2 questions in the assessment, which you can answer in any language. For each test, please commit your code to a private repository on GitHub, with a README.md on how to run it. When you’re done, simply add seahyc and yjwong as collaborators to your private repository.

There's no time limit, but do time yourself for every question beginning from the time you start reading it till your final local commit, and let me know how long you took for each question in the README. We recommend that you set aside 1.5 hours for each task in the test.

You can take in the input either via command-line arguments, or simply assume that it's assigned at the top of your script. Either way, let us know how to inject an input. We'll adapt our test cases accordingly. Very importantly, we trust you to write your solutions independent of any external help.

Task 1

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Customization and Configuration

Glints whitelabels its platfrom to several client. These are sites that share the same codebase as the main glints site, but has its custom styles and at times components.

An example is IE Singapore and JOS, vs main Glints.

How would you design our architecture to support flexible and extensible configuration/customization for whitelabel sites?

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Engineering Manager

Our north star metric for this year is 1000 placements made through our platform. As such, the roles we individually play might shift fluidly based on the situation. That being said, here are some of the gaps that we need filled at our stage:

• Trainining, guiding and coaching junior developers
• Improve our workflow and processes to improve site reliability, and to close feedback loop from customers
• ~30% of the time is in code review or hands-on code on bigger, more difficult projects
• Guide team on technical and architectural decisions
• Ensure timely shipping of end-user value whilst maintaining reliability and quality of the product

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1. Factorials

You are given an integer N. Print the factorial of N, as defined below.

N! = N * (N-1) * (N-2) * ... * 3 * 2 * 1

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