- HR Call (Get to know) - Engineer Lead Call (Kind of Get to know) - Take Home Assignment (1 Mandatory Assignment In Core PHP and 3 optional, Will take 8-10 hours) - Meeting With Team - Discussion About Assignment - Closing Talk So I spent 10 hours for mandatory task and 15 mins for 2 optional tasks (Didn't develop it, but created logic). First call - Meeting with Team - 4 total members were there, and was not productive as expected. Second call - Discussion about assignment - I explained project directory, did a walk through to code. - I implemented Namespace, Custom error handlers, Logger, Multi database provision, SOLID principles, some design patterns and Unit test cases. Last call - Closing Talk - Will ask for feedback and told to share their feedback from technical team. --------- NOW SHARING MY CONCERN --------- - They were not able to find issue in my logic or suggest an alternative logic - They didn't find any issue in my project directory - They found only one issue in DB structure (Which I was aware and did that purposely, just to showcase my different skills and I told same to them) - They told code was not clean (It was clean though but still can spend more hours for code cleanup) - They told more unit case could be written (Agree, again you can't spend days for this task) So my concern is, being an employer what you look for in candidate? - Logical Skill - Knows OOPs - Knows SOLID Principles - Knows Security Best Practice - Knows where is error or once error identified knows how to resolve that without anyone's help - Learn and Develop (In case of Unit test cases, I learned what kind of more unit test cases I should add) - Honesty So if a candidate is matching all above skills but still they want more :). So In Nutshell - If you have done 90% of work correct and you know what 10% you missed and can do it. but for them 10% is higher then 90% :) Also in my experience their development teams are kind of introvert and don't want someone new to be part of them. Hope that helps!