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    I dont think you read the question properly. OP did what your answer says to do, and still the client disregarded his solution because of what the OP believes was an SDK mismatch or something trivial. He tried to approach the situation as you indicated, with a hacky but working solution but met an incompetent development/IT team. Can you reframe your answer to address the full question? Commented Aug 2, 2018 at 1:06
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    I don't think it's fair to make assumptions outside of what the OP has stated. If you think the OP has the wrong idea, you must first reframe the question (which is completely fine) then answer that appropriately. Right now your answering based on assumptions that you've not substantiated or proven. Commented Aug 2, 2018 at 2:38
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    I'll agree with @GregBacon on this one -yes, a 2 hour test isn't about the best architecture.It's a tight deadline, but .net mvc will do almost all of the heavy lifting on this - anything else is massively overthinking the brief (and missing the point somewhat). And, unfortunately yes - complaining afterwards will sound like sour grapes. Commented Aug 2, 2018 at 4:42
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    Sounds like a good approach. It's what I did back in my Uni days. Okay, we had a week rather than two hours, but at the end of the day you still have a system that is perhaps not as complete as you'd like it to be, so you write about potential future work. This demonstrates that you know how to develop software and manage your project, and that you are always thinking of next improvement steps. It could simply be that this was what the interviewer was looking for, though I will concede that the specific requirements listed in the question seem particularly extreme for a 2-hour timescale. Commented Aug 2, 2018 at 17:02
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    This is a good counterpoint to the top-voted answers. Note that if this really were the goal, the interviewers should say, "The purpose of this test is for you to demonstrate that you have sufficient experience with these technologies to put together a basic working framework quickly. It needn't be perfect, but it should work." Commented Aug 3, 2018 at 4:44