We want you to create a command-line application that will calculate the ranking table for a soccer league.
You can find the sample-input.txt and expected-output.txt files at the top of this repository
The input and output will be text. Your solution should parse the provided sample-input.txt file via stdin (pipe or redirect)or by parsing a file passed by name on the command line. Your solution should output the correct result via stdout to the console.
The input contains results of games, one per line. See sample-input.txt for details. The output should be ordered from most to least points, following the format specified in expected-output.txt.
You can expect that the input will be well-formed. There is no need to add special handling for malformed input files.
In this league, a draw (tie) is worth 1 point and a win is worth 3 points. A loss is worth 0 points. If two or more teams have the same number of points, they should have the same rank and be printed in alphabetical order (as in the tie for 3rd place in the sample data). Ranks are assigned according to standard competition (1224) ranking.
We expect the resulting output of the provided sample-input.txt file to exactly match the contents of expected-output.txt.
For the programming languages allowed we would prefer that you use Python. If Python is not a programming language that you use often, please choose a language that is both comfortable for you and suited to the task. However we would be very impress if you are able to submit the challenge in a pythonic fashion (don't worry we would be rating your submission keeping this in mind!).
Your solution should be able to be run (and if applicable, built) from the command line. Please include appropriate scripts and instructions for running your application and your tests.
If you use other libraries installed by a common package manager (pip, poetry, npm, gradle, etc.), it is not necessary to commit the installed packages.
We write automated tests and we would like you to do so as well.
We appreciate well factored, object-oriented or functional designs.
We request that you spend no more than a few hours on this portion of the interview ( <= 3 hours is what we expect).
- Please document any steps necessary to run your solution and your tests.
- Please take 10 minutes to review your submission and list a few areas that would benefit from more time and attention.
Please send an email back to your point of contact with:
- the code you used to calculate the rankings
- your test suite code
- simple instructions on how to install and use your code
- the amount of time you spent on the project
- the list of improvements you would make
You can send us the submission in the form of a tarball or a zip file.
This will be run in a unix-ish environment (OS X or Linux). Please use platform-agnostic constructs where possible (line-endings and file-path-separators are two problematic areas).
Once you have sent us your project, we will review the code with our team members and rate it appropiately. If everything looks fine, we would like to have a code review interview with you where we will be going over what you sent us, as well as requesting a few changes in the code to see if the output can be altered. An example of what you can be expecting can be seen in this documentation: goal-differential-instructions.md