The following is a sample of the technical coding assessment. Please read through following instructions before starting the assessment. You will be given 1 hour to complete the coding assessment and 30 minutes to complete the solutioning assessment (i.e. 1.5 hours in total).

The assessment will require 1 programming language and SQL. Please setup your environment prior to the assessment. You may run the sample questions provided to test your setup.

Please note that only standard libraries/packages/modules will be allowed, no additional libraries/packages/modules are allowed in the assessment.

You need to choose 1 programming language below for the assessment. Your submission will be evaluated using the exact language version below.

Version: Python 3.7.9

Version: OpenJDK 11.0.8

Version: Node.js v14.9.0

Version: GCC 12.2.0

Version: GCC 12.2.0

Version: MySQL 8.0.23

Each folder contains a question written in a .md file. You are expected to create 1 file containing the solution to the question and place it into the same folder as the question, no other files will be considered. The solution file must be named as follows:

File name: solution.py

File name: Solution.java

File name: solution.js

File name: solution.c

File name: solution.cpp

File name: solution.sql

• All input is done using standard input (stdin)
• All input follows the constraints in the question, no additional validation is required
• All output is done using standard output (stdout)
• No leading space or trailing space should present in each line, unless it is part of the answer
• The last line of the output may optionally have a line break

Please refer to the sample questions and solutions for the I/O handling of each language

• No library except standard libraries provided by the selected language is allowed
• No other I/O operations (file, network...) except standard I/O is allowed
• The submitted solution must finish running in 3 seconds and consume no more than 512MB memory

Check-in the entire source code together with your answer to the master branch of your own repository (i.e., Either GitLab (https://gitlab.com/) or GitHub (https://github.com/)) and submit the link to the submissions form.

You are expected to configure your own repository as PUBLIC such that IBM recruitment team can access and download the submitted code for evaluation.

Also please find the following example URL format:

• Valid repository URL format example: https://gitlab.com/John_Chan/example-repo
• Valid repository URL format example: https://github.com/John_Chan/example-repo
• Invalid repository URL format example: https://gitlab.com/John_Chan/example-repo/-/tree/my-branch

N.B.1: You are expected to commit your code to your own repository before the deadline stated in the submission form. Late submission will not be considered.

N.B.2: In case of duplicate submissions, IBM recruitment team will take the latest submission before the deadline as the final version.