Burroughs is a small program I wrote for a job programming exercise.
Create a small command line utility to help a small fictional company calculate the dates on which they should pay their sales staff. Company payroll is handled like so:
- Sales staff are paid a regular fixed base salary each month, plus a regular monthly bonus.
- Base salaries are paid on the last day of each month, unless that day is a Saturday or Sunday (a weekend), in which case they are paid on the Friday before the weekend
- On the 15th of each month, bonuses are paid for the previous month, unless that day is a weekend, in which case they are paid on the first Wednesday after the 15th.
Your utility should calculate the payment dates for the next 12 months, including the current month, and output to the screen in a CSV format.
The project was built on top of nodejs v10.15.0. While other versions may work, this is the only version it has been tested on.
This project does make use of dayJS to make date-time manipulation a bit simpler. The reason dayjs was chosen over a more popular library, such as momentJS, is that dayJS is known for being a minimal 2kb in size.
All requirements can be installed via NPM or YARN using npm install or yarn from the project directory. To run the program, simply run the command npm start or yarn start.
- In an attempt to ensure the code is as simple to follow as it can be, all code is fully commented.
- Getting the CSV will not include dates within the current month if they have already past, it will however include them if they are the current date or later.
- Pay Days and Bonus Days are in sepearte columns. This is due to how I understood the task.