Fix the Password Reset Workflow
Company: Amazon
Role: Software Engineer
Category: Software Engineering Fundamentals
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Take-home Project
You are given a small code repository that implements a password reset flow, but several bugs cause both the application and its tests to fail.
The intended behavior is:
1. When a user requests a password reset, the system generates a verification code.
2. The verification step succeeds only if the submitted code matches the stored code and the code was generated no more than 30 seconds ago.
3. When the password reset succeeds, the new password must be persisted to the user's profile.
4. The test suite should run successfully, but there is also a broken URL or configuration file that references undefined variables and must be fixed.
Your task is to debug the repository locally, reproduce the failures, identify the broken files, fix the implementation and configuration issues, and make the full test suite pass.
Quick Answer: This question evaluates debugging, automated testing, time-based verification logic, configuration management, and secure state persistence skills within the Software Engineering Fundamentals domain for a Software Engineer role.
