This is a valid criticism; however, they did not specify I had to turn it in the next day, I could have kept it over the weekend and not taken a day off of work

This is a valid criticism; however, they did not specify I had to turn it in the next day, I could have kept it over the weekend and not taken a day off of work. Several people kept it over a weekend with no penalty. I also could have worked on it at night after work. I definitely preferred this option as opposed to having to take a full day off for an in person interview and another for the follow up. I only took an hour off for the first interview as it was at 5 and I just ran home and threw on a suit jacket and a couple hours for the final interview as it was close to the same time. If I had already worked in the js stack they asked me to use the entire project build would have been 5 or 6 hours and that's only because I really wanted to impress, I could have knocked it out once my kids went to sleep. But as in everything it depends on the person and their life circumstances, we all have different things going on.