[cheesedoodle]

I do not see how take home assignments, leet code questions, whiteboard programming and binary tree inversion can fun and fulfilling.

I want to explore potential co-workers, what the employer would value in me, what interesting hard problems they have, what they do for fun, how they celebrate and how they learn, if they actually code or have meetings, what I would be doing, what they need help with, what I can bring.

I think all of the above can be understood in a meeting or two and should take about 2-3 days from meeting to offer and not be stressful :)

[GianFabien]

>take home assignments, leet code questions, whiteboard programming and binary tree inversion

As a candidate you can choose to refuse to engage with such impositions. If it's a dealbreaker for the potential employee, you probably don't want to work there anyway.