[megous]

So if take-homes are to become the best practice for interviewing, perhaps there should be some service for re-using old ones that companies can trust that the candidate did for some other company and under which constraints. Otherwise it's just too much of a time waste for candidates, repeating take-homes for every single candidate company.

It would be like personal projects but with a few guarantees on top, like that the candidate got the work assigned by someone else, and s/he did it under some time/other constraints. And there would perhaps be a public free-form feedback from the other comapny (no rating). So the next comapny has to judge the work itself without ability to pre-filter based on whatever rating the previous one would have given (to avoid bias, because the scoring would be non-objective/non-standardized).

But I would still not like the take-homes. :)