The process began with a short phone screen call, followed by an in-person interview.

There were two interviewers, both developers at the company.

The interview consisted of the usual "tell us about yourself" questions, a discussion of past projects, and a technical question.

On the way out, they informed me they were interested in continuing the process and that there was a home assignment to complete, which I would receive via email.

After receiving the home assignment, I assessed that the task required at least four full workdays.

I notified the recruiter that this timeline wasn't possible. The recruiter then proposed doing whatever I could in the time I had.

Once I had prepared the server-side code only, I was told that it wasn't enough.

We decided to part ways.

The assignment was a full-stack task:

• A server component that needs to serve REST requests, call three remote APIs, and fetch data from three different sources. One of them requires using Google Cloud to perform OCR. The solution must scale to thousands of requests.
• A web front end with functional forms and the ability to perform queries by categories and display results.
• Docker Compose to start the whole solution.