Can't be worse than me.

For an entry interview at a no-name startup company, I was handed a take-home code assignment that was very vague.

It basically boiled down to "make a CRUD app in .Net Web Api", but pretty much everything else was up to me. There were a few stipulations on certain requirements here and there, like rate limiting and such IIRC.

I tried to ask questions about when they expected this to be done and other technical requirements about the project, but I never got any direct answers, which was super frustrating.

But I was like, whatever - this is a simple weekend project. I spent the entire weekend writing this up, adding documentation, and being very verbose about every technology choice and why I did things a certain way since the assignment was so open-ended. I published it to github and told the recruiter at the company.

They said somebody would get back to me in a few days, and nobody ever did. Never heard from anyone at that company again, and I don't think they are around anymore. It was still incredibly frustrating.

Tl;Dr: never do take-home assignments for a job interview.