Had a screening call with the internal recruiter Then with the take-home task the feedback I received showed a misunderstanding of the parameters of the task - the task was to add the list of index quotes that appear at the top of FT.com. I was asked to add this to a codebase that user server-side rendering. However there was a .js file referenced in the head of the existing page, and sample tests for this file. It's clear that one at -least valid way of fetching and rendering the data is to do that client-side, to avoid waiting for that fetch before the initial page is loaded ( the task explicitly encouraged NOT using React or SSR react framworks like next.js). The ft.com website itself does exactly this - loads an empty and then dynamically fetches market data dn adds the list on the FE. The reviewer said they didn't understand why I didn't fetch the market data on the back-end. There is a very clear reason why and the setup of the test itself encouraged that, so it's clear they didn't really understand the task. I asked for further clarification and didn't receive a response. The recruiter was very slow to respond to emails throughout the whole process.
