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They asked me to build a PHP Command line script that will take an URL (endpoint with an array of events) and two dates and I had to filter the array by the events that were available between those dates. Had 2 hours, I could use frameworks or anything but had to be documented in a Readme.
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PHP Backend Engineer

Interviewed at GetYourGuide

3.3★
Mar 31, 2018

They asked me to build a PHP Command line script that will take an URL (endpoint with an array of events) and two dates and I had to filter the array by the events that were available between those dates. Had 2 hours, I could use frameworks or anything but had to be documented in a Readme.

Given that you need to call for an external API and it costs X amount of money for each call, how could you waste the minimum amount of money and keep the values up to date? Obs. the values are reliable enough to be kept for 1min. And it has 2% failure rate overall.
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Backend Software Developer

Interviewed at Wise

3.6★
May 2, 2022

Given that you need to call for an external API and it costs X amount of money for each call, how could you waste the minimum amount of money and keep the values up to date? Obs. the values are reliable enough to be kept for 1min. And it has 2% failure rate overall.

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