Beware! these people ghost you after you submit the coding assignment.

Sorry about that! We do aim to give feedback to each candidate even if we've decided on a no hire. Can you send me an email at julien at serpapi.com to sort things out?

First reaction: I started my career with writing Windows & web apps using .NET over a decade ago, and what I just saw, kinda-sorta-maybe reminds me of ASP.NET Webforms.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

A bit. It also reminds me of what MS is doing with Blazor.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor

See https://github.com/reactjs/rfcs/blob/07dd4bc4807605020351606...:

>We don’t send the whole state of the program to the server. Interactive bits should be Client components.