You are absolutely correct that this would take a magnitude longer to build from scratch.
> a skilled dev would really only need 2 hours for that
Ah. I think that's the problem.
I suspect the "skilled dev" is keyword for "reuse existing project".
I can absolutely see myself reworking a Django app to support a backend, templates, some light pagination, documentation, and at least 70% test case coverage in 2 hours if I had an existing similar Django app with a backend, templates, some light pagination, documentation, and 90% test case coverage and I needed to rework it.
I think your competition cheated in reporting the total time it actually took them
You are absolutely correct that this would take a magnitude longer to build from scratch.
> a skilled dev would really only need 2 hours for that
Ah. I think that's the problem.
I suspect the "skilled dev" is keyword for "reuse existing project".
I can absolutely see myself reworking a Django app to support a backend, templates, some light pagination, documentation, and at least 70% test case coverage in 2 hours if I had an existing similar Django app with a backend, templates, some light pagination, documentation, and 90% test case coverage and I needed to rework it.
I think your competition cheated in reporting the total time it actually took them