I was contacted by a recruiter and had a phone call with them. Afterward, I received a technical exercise to complete within the week.

The exercise was pretty open-ended, and I wasn't told what I would be judged on beforehand, just that it should be high quality and offer a good user experience.

I didn't move on to the next interview. I was told that they would have liked to see a better visual design, though I didn't think I was applying for a design job.

The technical exercise instructed me to make a single-page app. This app should:

• Read from an API.
• Display the data on the page.
• Update the page without refreshing.

The user should also be able to click on an entry and get an overlay with more details. The only technical limitation was to not use any frameworks.