> [...]took me close to 24 hours. He responded saying it wasn't up to par and then ghosted. And this is why I'll never do a take-home project for an interview.

> [...]took me close to 24 hours. He responded saying it wasn't up to par and then ghosted. And this is why I'll never do a take-home project for an interview. The time commitment is completely asymmetrical. The company can easily send the work to hundreds of people they have no interest it and it costs them nothing other than ~1 minute to send the email with some links. At least in an in-person interview every minute I spend on it, the company has to spend the same amount of time from some employee.