[not_real_acct]

Time is money.

If you make about $100 an hour, a six hour coding challenge costs you about $600.

If a potential employer asked you to spend $600 to fly out and see them, on your dime, would you do it?

I would do it IF I desperately needed a job. I did it back during the dot com crash; I needed a job badly and I was willing to roll the dice.

In 2020? Oh hell no. There's a million companies who are hiring, and an employer would have to be exceptionally special for me to waste $600 on the chance they'll hire me.

[autarch]

Companies fly people out all the time (well, pre-COVID). They pay for the travel expenses, but not your time. I personally find this much more of an imposition than spending a few hours writing some code in the comfort of my home.

[djsumdog]

The only time I've bothered with coding challenges is what I was out of work, and zero of them, even some I spent hours working on, have ever lead me to a job. My current employer was fine with an example from current open source project I contribute to.