This kind of evaluation is much more likely to find qualified people than the standard programming trivia questions interview process. They made a couple of mi

This kind of evaluation is much more likely to find qualified people than the standard programming trivia questions interview process. They made a couple of mistakes that make it likely that very qualified people will skip it, though. 1. They should set up a virtual machine with the framework installed and a skeleton project working with dead-simple instructions to run it 2. They should time-box it. Meaning -- you tell me when you can do it -- I send you the instructions beforehand and then you have 2 hours. I tell you my expectations -- not beautiful code, but an indication that you understand the spec and see what you can do in a few hours. 3. They seem to want you to geocode the address -- they should provide a dummy function or service to do that (or give some indication of what they expect here) 4. The only semi-challenging part of this is the hierarchical algorithm they want to see you code (common ancestor). The rest is just boiler-plate. Perhaps just cut to the chase (give you the rest of the code -- and just leave this function blank and have you code it).