Received feedback on a task I made for a job interview (I didn't get a technical interview).

The task was easy with nothing special about it that made me think if that's what the job is like, I don't want to work there. It was a simple web page with search functionality. I did the task anyway.

The feedback I got was useless. It said that I made a complex and an over-engineered solution.
What I made, mind you, was a one endpoint API and a single Vue.js component instead of using jQuery to update the results. That's it. OVER-ENGINEERED!

Complete waste of time.

if that is over engineered the standard is pretty damn low or the current devs are living in the past decade

@nebula yeah, that's what I thought.

On the bright side you probably dodged a bullet there, it sounds like their code quality is a pile of shit. Though there's always a possibility that UI update was so small you could do everything with one or two document.querySelector().setAttribute() / .innerText calls.

I have the reverse experience. i was ask to make a simple API for virtual cryptocurrency trading and management. I made it using spring-boot, Feign, Hibernate, Postgres

It was a thing of beauty and all the blocks fit perfectly.

The response:
You wrote barely any code, you only used libraries

-_- yes, that's what they are for mate, don't re-invent the wheel...

I still got the job and It's actually completely unrelated to any of this...In retrospect I think the guy only wanted to know if I understand how rest services work and was hoping for more http related calls or something!

Whatever.

Interviews are about guessing exactly what the interviewer wants you to do. If you do it in a way that don't like or know, you're fucked.