Welcome to the Alaska Airlines Angular coding exercise!

Getting Started

Important Note: If this interview is being performed as a remote coding exercise please have the Prerequisites and Initial Setup complete before attending. You are welcome to familiarize yourself with the codebase and prompt before the interview.

Prerequisites

You will need the following installed on your local machine:

• The latest LTS version of Node.js
• The Angular CLI
• Your editor of choice

Initial Setup

1. Create a GitHub account if you do not have one already
2. Fork this repository and clone it locally
3. Run npm install in the project root
4. Run ng serve in a terminal
5. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:4200/
6. You should see a simple Angular application.
   • If this interview is being performed as a remote coding exercise you're done with the initial setup. Please feel free to familiarize yourself with the codebase and prompt.
7. Open environment.ts and replace the apiKey value with your API key.
8. If things are configured correctly you should see text after "Health Ping Result"

Prompt

Our call center agents are frequently asked to look up flight information when choosing routes for our guests. Use the provided skeleton application build a form for our agents that lets them search for flights and displays the results.

Acceptance Criteria

• The form has three input fields: Origin, Destination and Flight Date.
  • Origin and Destination are both three letter airport codes, such as "SEA" and "PHX"
  • Flight Date is the departure date that the guest is interested in.
• Results are displayed in a table that shows the Flight Number, Departure Time and Arrival Time.
• Use https://apis.qa.alaskaair.com/aag/1/guestServices/flights to gather the required information. See the example in flights.service.ts.

Keys to Success

Here are a few things to keep in mind as you work through this exercise:

• The code provided is not perfect! We value a "refactor mentality" so don't feel like you should leave the existing skeleton as is.
• Try to exercise quality software engineering practices such as separation of concerns and test automation.
• Please check in early and check in often. We'd like to use your git history to see your process.
• Please do not check your API key in and push it to source control.

API Key Generation

Candidates can ignore this part, these instructions are for the people giving the interview.

A prerequisite for giving this exercise out is to generate an API key for the candidate to use.

1. Open the QA Gateway (APIM). Not production.
2. Look for the INTERVIEW product
3. Add a new subscription

Your profile page will now have an API key that can be shared with the candidate. Cancel this key after the interview loop is complete.