Jan-17-2018, 07:59 AM
I'm trying to gauge my development ability. There are different Python programming challenges that employers have candidates perform. How long would it take to write a program that does the following:
1. Reads in a .csv of people's names
2. Prompts the user to enter numbers (0-9) that correspond to letters on a keypad on a phone.
3. Returns a list of last names that match the numbers entered.
The output would all be text. The user would run "python foo.py" to start the program.
Should something like this take an experienced Python software engineer 1 hour? Would it take 40 hours for a junior software engineer to do something like this? I'm curious how much time a senior and junior professional Python software engineer would need to write a program that does the above three things.
1. Reads in a .csv of people's names
2. Prompts the user to enter numbers (0-9) that correspond to letters on a keypad on a phone.
3. Returns a list of last names that match the numbers entered.
The output would all be text. The user would run "python foo.py" to start the program.
Should something like this take an experienced Python software engineer 1 hour? Would it take 40 hours for a junior software engineer to do something like this? I'm curious how much time a senior and junior professional Python software engineer would need to write a program that does the above three things.