What would be a good 4-hour development task for a job interview?

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What would be a good 4-hour development task for a job interview?

We're conducting a job interview for web application developers. First round was an in-depth verbal interview for shortlisting candidates, now comes the second round where selected candidates will have to actually produce working code. Candidates will have full Internet access, free choice of development environment, frameworks, etc and 4 hours to build a working (or at least partially working) web application from scratch. The development task should test their abilities in all the three usual...

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Anecdote time! At one place in a job interview I was once given a programming test in Javascript. The...

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You make a ton of money, and pretty much run the company. Get a title change, and keep working there...

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