Applied Materials Planning and Scheduling Optimization Development Engineer III interview questions

without talking with HR for those regular HR questions, the phone interview jumped directly to talking with a team member on technical problem over the phone/Email. AND the technical question IS asking me to do a "take home" modelling project, which would cost TWO DAYS of labor time and demand a comprehensive documentation sent back, no to mention that it asked to provide a lot of description of the model about how to handle in a lot of detailed case study.