Unpaid project disguised as an interview test. The company requires applicants to complete a “technical test” that is essentially building a full-stack application tied directly to their business domain (real estate retail). This includes setting up a backend to handle multiple requests (high latency) defining their specific database structure, and building a responsive front-end. They frame it as a skills exercise, but it’s really a production level project that could be used internally. Candidates are even given weeks to complete it, and multiple people work on it simultaneously (as they talk to multiple dev. candidates in one single interview) effectively providing free labor under the guise of evaluation. This is not standard practice in serious interview processes, where technical tests are normally time-boxed (1–3 hours) and use neutral or generic datasets. Asking candidates to invest days or weeks building domain specific features without pay is exploitative.