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Problem :Design an org-chart server. Server (preferably multi-threaded) reads the sample file containing employee data. File format: Its semi-colon separated, the first field is the employee-id, 2nd field is name [can be space separated] & the 3rd field is his manager’s id. employee-id will be equal to reports-to-id for CEO. The file can have empty lines. If number of tokens is not equal to 3, it should ignore these lines but report a message/warning and continue. The id’s can be numbers or strings Sample file: ########### 1: CEO: 1 2: CTO: 1 3: VP Sales: 1 4: Tech Manager1: 2 5: Tech Manager2:
Dec 8, 2015

Problem :Design an org-chart server. Server (preferably multi-threaded) reads the sample file containing employee data. File format: Its semi-colon separated, the first field is the employee-id, 2nd field is name [can be space separated] & the 3rd field is his manager’s id. employee-id will be equal to reports-to-id for CEO. The file can have empty lines. If number of tokens is not equal to 3, it should ignore these lines but report a message/warning and continue. The id’s can be numbers or strings Sample file: ########### 1: CEO: 1 2: CTO: 1 3: VP Sales: 1 4: Tech Manager1: 2 5: Tech Manager2:

How did you account for <issues that are commonly known about problem domain>? Do you know if there are any disadvantages to using this method/algorithm/model? Can you explain in detail how <algorithm referenced in presentation code but called from ext library> works? How would you work on this code collaboratively? Are there any improvements you would make to the code before production? How would you make this script machine readable? What was your experience like working with <programming language> on <project in CV>?
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Oct 29, 2021

How did you account for <issues that are commonly known about problem domain>? Do you know if there are any disadvantages to using this method/algorithm/model? Can you explain in detail how <algorithm referenced in presentation code but called from ext library> works? How would you work on this code collaboratively? Are there any improvements you would make to the code before production? How would you make this script machine readable? What was your experience like working with <programming language> on <project in CV>?

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