> "i also agree these take homes are not 4 hour affairs. they give you no direction so you can't sacrifice ui/ux for functionality because you have no clue how

> "i also agree these take homes are not 4 hour affairs. they give you no direction so you can't sacrifice ui/ux for functionality because you have no clue how they judge it." I had a take home for a UI position that I spent ~10-12 hours on. It was some pretty standard UI stuff and they had 5 points of functionality they wanted you to code. Make it responsive, have these sections in a different order on mobile, make X do Y when you click Z, etc etc. At the interview, two technical peers walked through what I had submitted. Their questions made it really clear they had no idea what problems I was supposed to solve. - Why didn't you write a complete RESTful backend to serve this data? (the instructions literally said not to) - Why didn't you use a CSS pre-processor? (the code required ~30 lines of CSS) - Why doesn't this button work? (it wasn't supposed to) - Why doesn't this code work on a mobile device? (it worked just fine on mobile devices) Really just a strange, strange experience.