feat(chore): Coding Assessments for IBM [Sep-2026]

[shortthirdman]

Coding Assessments for IBM (Sep 2026)

Overview

This PR introduces the newly curated coding assessment materials and evaluation scripts specifically tailored for IBM recruitment/evaluation processes for September 2026.

Key Highlights

• Assessment Content: Added updated problem statements, test cases, and algorithmic challenge sets reflecting current IBM technical screening standards.
• Automation & Maintenance (chore): Cleaned up repository structure, organized test runner scripts, and standardized evaluation templates for seamless grading.
• Scope: Covers coding problems ranging across data structures, algorithms, and core domain competencies.

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Dependency Review

The following issues were found:

• ✅ 0 vulnerable package(s)
• ✅ 0 package(s) with incompatible licenses
• ✅ 0 package(s) with invalid SPDX license definitions
• ⚠️ 1 package(s) with unknown licenses.

See the Details below.

License Issues

pom.xml

Package	Version	License	Issue Type
org.projectlombok:maven-compiler-plugin	3.13.0	Null	Unknown License

Denied Licenses:

GPL-1.0-or-later, LGPL-2.0-or-later

OpenSSF Scorecard

Package	Version	Score	Details
maven/org.junit.platform:junit-platform-suite-api	1.10.2	🟢 8.3	Details Check Score Reason Packaging ⚠️ -1 packaging workflow not detected Code-Review ⚠️ 0 Found 0/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 Maintained 🟢 10 30 commit(s) and 25 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 Dependency-Update-Tool 🟢 10 update tool detected Dangerous-Workflow 🟢 10 no dangerous workflow patterns detected Token-Permissions 🟢 10 GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege Security-Policy 🟢 10 security policy file detected Binary-Artifacts 🟢 9 binaries present in source code Pinned-Dependencies 🟢 10 all dependencies are pinned Vulnerabilities 🟢 10 0 existing vulnerabilities detected CII-Best-Practices 🟢 5 badge detected: Passing SAST 🟢 10 SAST tool is run on all commits License 🟢 10 license file detected Branch-Protection ⚠️ -1 internal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: githubv4.Query: Resource not accessible by integration Signed-Releases ⚠️ -1 no releases found Fuzzing ⚠️ 0 project is not fuzzed CI-Tests 🟢 10 3 out of 3 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10 Contributors 🟢 10 project has 59 contributing companies or organizations
maven/org.projectlombok:lombok	1.18.40	🟢 3.6	Details Check Score Reason Code-Review ⚠️ 0 Found 2/27 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0 Maintained 🟢 10 30 commit(s) and 7 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 Packaging ⚠️ -1 packaging workflow not detected Security-Policy 🟢 10 security policy file detected Dangerous-Workflow ⚠️ -1 no workflows found Token-Permissions ⚠️ -1 No tokens found CII-Best-Practices ⚠️ 0 no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected Binary-Artifacts 🟢 7 binaries present in source code License 🟢 9 license file detected Fuzzing ⚠️ 0 project is not fuzzed Signed-Releases ⚠️ -1 no releases found Branch-Protection ⚠️ 0 branch protection not enabled on development/release branches SAST ⚠️ 0 SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0 Pinned-Dependencies ⚠️ 0 dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
maven/org.projectlombok:maven-compiler-plugin	3.13.0	Unknown	Unknown

Scanned Files

• pom.xml