News Catalyst Developer Interview

This is a starter Django application for interviewing candidates for News Catalyst's developer position.

Quickstart

Prerequisites

To setup this basic Django application, make sure you have Python 3 and pipenv installed on your machine. If you're on a Mac, I recommend these instructions. Please let me know if you have trouble installing these requirements.

Installing the application

To work on this repository, first clone it to your machine and install the requirements.

$ git clone https://github.com/news-catalyst/developer-interview
$ pipenv install
$ pipenv run python manage.py migrate
$ pipenv run python manage.py runserver

What you will do

Pre-interview

Before our interview, you will need to write some code on your own setting up the basic structure of this app. When writing your solution, feel free to go in any direction you see fit, as long as your solution matches the requirements below. That means you can install any libraries you want or use any programming style you want. The goal is to demonstrate how you write code from scratch.

Here are the tasks. Implement the following features on your fork:

1. In the users app, build models that:

• Attach a profile to Django's built-in user model
• Allow users to associate multiple additional email addresses with their profile (beyond the one Django stores in its standard user model)
• Allow users to upload a profile image (just the model, don't worry about actually handling an upload)
• Allow users to enter a short biography about themselves

2. In the organizations app, build models that:

• Establish organizations with unique names
• Allow users to be members of organizations
• Allow certain users to be administrators of that organization

3. Implement a view and template that displays all the users in the database. Write some basic styles to display this list.

Note: When you're done, leave your work on your local machine. In order to maintain the privacy of these interviews, do not submit a pull request, fork the repo, or do anything that would show up in your public history on Github.

Interview

In the interview, we will do two things:

1. Review the code you did in the pre-interview step. Be prepared to talk through the architectural decisions you made.
2. Together, we will edit the view and template you built to display the organizations all users are affiliated with (the view will continue to display all users, not just the user you are logged in with).

We will do this with remote screen sharing software. We will coordinate how we will do this through email.

The goal here is to both understand how you thought about the code you already wrote, as well as get a sense of how you work collaboratively with another programmer.

Questions/concerns

Email [email protected] if you have issues installing the application or have questions about the tasks.