I worked for a company where I devised a 3 hour assignment given to candidates (full-stack developers) during on-site round. They were free to bring their own machine and work on their choice of stack. They were free to use any web resources available. I even broke down the assignment into small steps to follow.
Assignment was to develop an application which tested the candidate's skills to access web api, browse through documentation, do proper authentication, parse api results and finally the most important skill to design an algorithm to compute desired output depending on the question asked. It was doable within 3 hrs for experienced engineer. Not many succeeded in this task but those who were able to do it were real good developers.
Assignment was to develop an application which tested the candidate's skills to access web api, browse through documentation, do proper authentication, parse api results and finally the most important skill to design an algorithm to compute desired output depending on the question asked. It was doable within 3 hrs for experienced engineer. Not many succeeded in this task but those who were able to do it were real good developers.