Yes, this is another problem with it. However, from my (albeit limited) experience, it still beats classical interviews. Bringing people in and enforcing a ti

Yes, this is another problem with it. However, from my (albeit limited) experience, it still beats classical interviews. Bringing people in and enforcing a time limit could help, but many people get very nervous in that type of 'exam' situation, so you lose a lot of the benefit (which is primarily seeing how they work in the real world, out of a pressure-filled interview situation).^ Personally, I prefer to make the assignments less open-ended than the ones in the OP. That way hopefully there's only so much time that could really be reasonably spent on them. It's still an issue, but (over-) paying for the "2 hours" helps too. The remaining downside is worth it in my opinion for the far better filtering it provides. (Also, classical interviews are no picnic for many people either. I know plenty of people who would rather spend all weekend at home working on something than be subjected to a regular interview.) ^Also we're all-remote, so in our particular case we really couldn't do that even if we wanted to.