Talked to a recruiter Only applied because I knew a good person there Things seem to be going well, but the recruiter sends me a technical assessment for the Frontend Engineer position IT'S A FULL-SYSTEM ASSESSMENT You have to create a microservices-based project management app with: - Project and task management (CRUD, statuses, assignments) - User roles and authentication (JWT or OAuth2) - A REST or GraphQL API - A database (PostgreSQL/MongoDB/MySQL) - A frontend in React, Vue, or Angular - Tests (unit and integration) - Documentation on setup and usage - Optional DevOps extras (containerization, CI/CD, event-driven notifications) And when I reached back to the recruiter to ask why the Frontend Engineering assessment is so large, and asked if there is a frontend specific assessment, he shut me down and said I raised red flags Not impressed