[mjdesa]

This issue with take home interviews is that the time commitment on the side of the candidate is super high. If every company gives you some variant of this take home, you spend at 2-10 hours on each take home, and you're interviewing at 10-20 companies, it very quickly becomes a full time job.

[ghaff]

There are occasions when it's absolutely necessary to see concrete examples of writing, programming, design, etc. A portfolio in other words. Now, this can often be satisfied with work that already exists. Though for programming you're now getting into "what do you mean you don't have open source projects on GitHub?" territory.