Patchwork Health Frontend Engineer interview questions

This company actively filters out candidates who do the take-home task too well, or anyone who knows more beyond their role. They like giving tasks to waste your time even through they've already made a decision. The first stage was an hour screening call. The second stage was a take-home task, and the goal was to develop React components from the provided Figma screens into Storybook. Prior to submission they were very proactive, however after submitting my task, I was told I'd hear back ASAP. 18 days passed and I received a vague rejection email stating: "Your exercise and outputs we're actually very good and of a higher level than we would expect given your levels of experience! However, unfortunately, the team decided to progress with another candidate who they felt was more in line to the overall requirement and long term strategic aim of the team. " As a full stack developer with 2 years commercial experience and an ex-ui/uxdesigner, I worked a week on this on my vacation time, learning Storybook and ensuring the task was completed - only to be told it was too good. It seems this company is looking for candidates who barely complete the task and don't have a life outside frontend development - so they don't leave early the role early or threaten the positions of other staff. Avoid doing the take-home task too well, and avoid asking too many questions unrelated to the immediate role like the pricing strategy. It shouldn't come off that you like sharpening your development skills with side projects in your free time because they'll think you're an entrepreneur. I would have appreciated honest, blunt and direct feedback for the time invested rather than vague feedback with commercial speel. It really goes again the culture Patchwork tries to portray.