[friedman23]

> present interviewees with a small take-home case study based on a real on-the-job problem

In my experience these are terrible. It becomes an arms race, what the company intended to become a 5 hour take home assignment becomes a 20 hour assignment because everyone else that's doing the take home assignment is also spending 20 hours. Take homes are a trap.

[kodah]

Personally, I like the idea of objective based take homes rather than time based. Then just have them check everything in on git so you can see how they work.