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>4 hours means that I can do it within half a day on weekend and then spend the rest of the day with something else - going somewhere. At minimum, I can send kids outside with someone and be 4 hours alone at home to focus. Or I can do it 2 hours one evening and 2 hours another one - two days.

Makes sense, thanks for answering. Yeah for 6 hours you probably need to leave work a little bit early or work until late at night (if you want to fit it in your work week).

The way we setup the take home, you can't work on it for several evenings in a row : we have a 24h timer starting when you first see what you have to do. So you can do it over a full day if you want (like 2 hours in the morning and 2 more in the evening) but you can't work on it 60 hours over a week (that's the main potential issue I can see with take homes .. it encourages you to spend a lot of time in order to show off)

>Really, all too many companies like to pretend that juniors don't exists or cant learn .

Yeah, in all fairness a junior is a lot of work. You basically make the bet to lose 20% (made up number) of productivity for a year in order to mentor somebody in the hope that this person will stay for a while and grow.

However, we already spend so much time interviewing people that honestly I can't be convinced that only hiring 'best in the world' engineers is such a great idea.