Thank you for taking the time to complete this sample project. We're a tech first company and we value our engineers tremendously. We're are looking for hard working, smart engineers with either excellent experience or lots of potential.
The project is to write a function that searches through NBA player heights based on user input. The raw data is taken from here. The data is served in json format by the endpoint here.
The task is to create an application that takes a single integer input. The application will download the raw data from the website above (https://mach-eight.uc.r.appspot.com) and print a list of all pairs of players whose height in inches adds up to the integer input to the application. If no matches are found, the application will print "No matches found"
Sample output is as follows:
> app 139
- Brevin Knight Nate Robinson
- Nate Robinson Mike Wilks
The algorithm to find the pairs must be faster than O(n^2). All edge cases should be handled appropriately. This is not a closed book test. You are encouraged to reach out with any questions that you come across.
All candidates who submit an algorithm that is efficient and correct will pass to the next step of the interview process. We define "efficient" as faster than O(n^2) and "correct" as returning the correct results for all possible inputs. Any assignment that doesn't return the correct answer for the sample input above (139) will fail.
If you feel the need to impress us by going above and beyond, we're impressed by good unit tests as well as clean and readable code. We're less interested in your knowledge of any particular framework (react, django, etc.). You're welcome to create a full featured web app with pretty graphics if you want, but that will not improve your chances of passing. There have been passing assignments written in under 30 lines of python.
The preferred form of submission is by publishing a public repo on github with your code and a README file explaining how to run the code. We can also accept an emailed zip file with the same contents.