This is a very reasonable task, but most of the take-home projects I've gotten (for both frontend and backend) have been significantly larger. The worst one wa

This is a very reasonable task, but most of the take-home projects I've gotten (for both frontend and backend) have been significantly larger. The worst one was for Optimizely, who asked me to write an entire website (front-end using React, backend in Python) which will display a list of products from a database, including full tests. I determined that boilerplate and configuration would take me about 5 hours, with maybe another 5-6 hours of actual coding. They even offered to pay me something like $15/hour (literally nothing) to do this. I said no.