I will never agree to a take home assignment unless the company agrees to a debrief. A (reputable) company asked for a take home assignment after a "group inte

I will never agree to a take home assignment unless the company agrees to a debrief. A (reputable) company asked for a take home assignment after a "group interview" as a college hire, and as a college hire I didn't know to tell them to pound sand. Same experience as yours, I spent twice as long as I was told it would take, then was rejected with feedback that was generic and very subjective. Admittedly my career went in a different direction (company was realtime ads, I went down the distributed systems rabbit hole) but I still disagree with their feedback. Given the chance to do the assignment again (assuming, for the sake of argument, that I wouldn't laugh in their face) I would come up with a very different solution, but still one that I think would yield similar wishy-washy but negative feedback. Moral of this story is to never accept take home assignments, and don't get discouraged if you get poor feedback from one because it's essentially a distilled version of everything shitty about onboarding & code reviews, rolled up into a single package