> "can you build an endpoint that fetches data from other places - some in parallel, some in serial - and build a response?" Years back now this is what we did

> "can you build an endpoint that fetches data from other places - some in parallel, some in serial - and build a response?" Years back now this is what we did when we were hiring, and then used it to jump start the conversation in the interview. Tried to keep it to an hour or so of work, but if someones interviewing at multiple places that can add up quickly. I think your recruiter is probably right, unless you have some sort of outstanding place where people are lining up to work. Personally I refuse to do anything like it for interviews now, and I know a lot of others on the more experienced end that do the same. There's way too many places that'll hire without it to bother, unless it was somewhere like google where its sort of expected.