[zebraflask]

+1 on that.

The handful of times I've dumped a bunch of time and effort into an at-home screening assignment, it took far longer to do well than whatever the allotted time was made out to be. Emphasis on the "do well" part.

My (unscientific) sense is that these things are really just screening for people willing to jump through unreasonable hoops.

[kube-system]

I feel like this is a mismatch of delivery expectations rather than a problem with take-homes. I explicitly tell our candidates that I don't expect them to put together a polished solution in the couple of hours they have for the take-home. That's fine. The point is to merely get an idea of someone's ability.

[zebraflask]

That's a good point.

Counterpoint: what idea can be had from rushed / time-constrained / deliberately careless work examples?

Any junior can copy / paste some functional yet poorly done code. Or make ChatGPT come up with something, I suppose, now that that's a thing.

Experiences vary, but every job I've taken and liked - no coding tests of any kind. More of a discussion about an example piece of code, for that part of the interview, but no requirement to come up with new code.