Take-home projects are just a more complete and accurate representation of the development experience someone would have on the job. You have much more data ab

Take-home projects are just a more complete and accurate representation of the development experience someone would have on the job. You have much more data about them than a 30-60 minute live coding session. Though my current company doesn't do them, I was hired for a previous position from a take-home project and generally support them. As an engineer, I'd rather put more effort into a smaller number of take-home projects than a larger number of live coding sessions...