Welcome to the Instinct Interview Exercise!
The goal of this exercise is to pair together to give both of us an example of working together on a real problem. This is not a test. Rather, it is an exercise that will be scored on collaboration, problem solving, and competence to implement an idea in a codebase.
To get started, let’s review the feature we will work on:
Stack:
- Elixir GraphQL API
- Postgres DB
- React UI
Data Model:
- Relational structure
- Single-tenant
We suggest simplifying to only two tables:
- Keep the standard data templates table.
- Keep the games table.
- Eliminate the slots and guesses tables.
- Our idea was to move this information into a jsonb
statecolumn on the games table.
- Our idea was to move this information into a jsonb
That’s what we’ll work on in the exercise! Here are the topics we’d like you to cover:
- What design do you think we should implement?
- How would you break down this project into incremental pieces?
- Let’s look at the code together and begin mocking up some of the initial changes.
- This is not a test with a single solution. Rather, it is an exercise that will be scored on collaboration, problem solving, and competence to implement an idea in a codebase.
- We would like to see you interact with the codebase in your editor and tools, but we do not need to see you code!
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