It's a very basic filter for the right way of thinking. Even if you have never programmed it before you should not have any problem with it.
I interned in a medium sized cloud company this summer and they require you to complete a homework project within 4 hours before interviews. You have to setup an environment in your language of choice, query an rest api, parse some json, do a rather easy rearranging of data and post that back to the api as json. Took me about 1 1/2 hours with simple documentation and cleaning up my code. It really only asked basics you should know, if you ever worked with a CRUD app. They also told you before the clock started that it's about HTTP, REST and JSON so you could prepare.
I heared from multiple people from the local colleges that were friends with other interns that this project was way to hard and they had no way of doing it. But it was the bare minimum you needed to do your job there without having to be babysitted by a senior fulltime.
I interned in a medium sized cloud company this summer and they require you to complete a homework project within 4 hours before interviews. You have to setup an environment in your language of choice, query an rest api, parse some json, do a rather easy rearranging of data and post that back to the api as json. Took me about 1 1/2 hours with simple documentation and cleaning up my code. It really only asked basics you should know, if you ever worked with a CRUD app. They also told you before the clock started that it's about HTTP, REST and JSON so you could prepare.
I heared from multiple people from the local colleges that were friends with other interns that this project was way to hard and they had no way of doing it. But it was the bare minimum you needed to do your job there without having to be babysitted by a senior fulltime.