I had a call with the talent acquisition person, which lasted more or less 30 minutes. We went throught the opening and he made sure I was expecting to workat least 40/42 hours per week minumum. This first step was globally good, apart from this hours aspect which I found rather weird. I was then sent the home excercise. 7 endpoints to develop, using Sequelize, in 3 hours they say. This is totally unrealistic giving the fact that candidates do not necessarily have knowledge of Sequelize. Even with this knowledge it would take 25 minutes for each endpoint to produce something solid, without mistakes. Rather unrealistic. I took the challenge, I took more time to do something properly done, properly structured. I also added Swagger to call the endpoints, correctly used Sequelize, transactions, locks, and generally structure the code properly. The feedback I had was negative because of 3 points: 2 very minor things, and one about one endpoint because I did not get a litttle nuance. In the pros, no mention about the code quality, the division of responsibilities, the correct use of Sequelize etc. I think at the minimum I deserved to talk about my tech choices in the next recruitement step, also to be challenged. They write in the test that they do not expect anything fancy giving the time constraints. it's false, they will turn you down even for very minor imprecisions, without giving you the possibility to explain/clarify. This is quite frustrating seeing the time spent on the task and the quality delivered.