Elfsight PHP Home Task

Hi there,

Welcome to the next stage of our hiring process! We're excited to have you tackle this home task.

The Task

Create a service that meets the following requirements:

Functional Requirements

• A user should be able to submit a review for a Rick and Morty episode (you can get the episode list from the public API).
• Each review will be automatically rated (on a scale from 0 to 1) using sentiment analysis.
• A user can request an episode's summary, which includes:
  • the episode name;
  • release date;
  • average sentiment score;
  • last 3 reviews for that episode.

Non-Functional Requirements

• The service should be accessible via an HTTP API.
• It should be built using PHP and Symfony (recommended) or Laravel.
• The database can be either MySQL/MariaDB or PostgreSQL.
• The application should be free of bugs and function smoothly.
• It should be set up for containerization and be ready to run locally using Docker Compose.
• (Optional, but recommended) Include tests to ensure the service works correctly.

Hints

• You don't need to implement sentiment analysis from scratch. Feel free to use an existing API or open-source library for that.
• Identity and access management isn't a focus for this task, so you can skip authentication or implement a simple solution.

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If you have any questions or run into issues, don't hesitate to reach out.

Good luck, and happy coding!

The Elfsight Engineering Team