Stepful has an awful take-home project that is somehow boring, unreasonable, time consuming, and vague all at the same time. The take home only wants the candidate to produce a large number of CRUD loops in a short period of time, and it does not provide engineers with any meaningful opportunity to demonstrate the depth of their knowledge and abilities. It gives a terrible impression of a company that values how much boilerplate code you can write in a few hours. Stepful also does not bother to explain what criteria they are using to evaluate your work, and does not bother providing you with feedback of any kind, and they do not even bother to communicate with you at all. As other reviews have indicated, Stepful's take home assignment requires the engineer to create a backend app and a frontend app from scratch. They say not to waste time on an authentication system, but the acceptance criteria require a user to be logged in, so the engineer needs to waste time figuring out their own fake session management method and simply guess at what type of solution is acceptable. Asking candidates to spend hours on a take home project with vague directions is unacceptable and ineffective in that a candidate can spend hours only to fail due to poor directions. As other reviews have pointed out, the take home also requires the engineer to complete a series of extremely basic CRUD loops. There are no meaningful backend or frontend challenges that would allow the engineer to showcase their abilities. The instructions say that the engineer should only spend three hours on the assignment, but three hours is not even close to enough time to complete the assignment and get everything functioning well. It is even more impossible to actually refactor anything into production quality code in that time frame. Do not waste your time applying to this company.