This is the description of the challenge we need you to do before joining us. We'll use everything you'll do here to evaluate you, so please, do your best!
You need to create an application to index words in text files. Basically, we'll send some simple text files to you, and you will count how many times every word appears in it. Then, you will write an interface where we will search for a word, and you will list the documents that contain that word, and how many times the word appear on each document. Also, remember to order the results by word occurrence.
- You are free to tackle this problem in any way you want. If you think one application is not enough, create some more!
- Please provide a document explaining your whole architecture, what you did, and why you did it.
- Please provide a document for your application explaining how to install, test, and run it. (If you deploy it in a service like Heroku or similar gets extra points!)
- Just do what you think is right. We understand that no one knows everything, and of course, you will have the opportunity to improve once you're here.
- We think that a week is a good deadline for this challenge, but please reach out to us if you need any extra time.
- Would be nice if you use Ruby or Python somewhere in your application. We understand that every language has its suitabilities, but these are the languages that we currently use in our services, so we would like to see you coding in them.
- Create some private GIT repos (if you don't have private repos on Github, you can use bitbucket)
- Commit your code in the repos
- Once you're finished, grant read access to them to the users diogolacerda
- Send an email telling us it's done
- There is no step 5.
While you can use any text file to test your application, we will use the files in the test-files/ folder to evaluate your application. Please make sure you test using them as well.
Thank you for your interest in Mediar Solutions. We look forward to working with you!