[nialo]

I'd rather spend 8 hours programming than burn a full day on 5 whiteboard interviews the way Google does.

More generally, I think the target should be to make the work sample test take a similar amount of time to the in person interview you'd have to do instead.

[kafkaesq]

The point is, they never wrote back.

That's just shabby and disrespectful, regardless of how many other candidates they're talking to, or how they evaluated this particular candidate.