> And finally, the take-home projects, I think they are the worse in comparison, you are expected to work for free for at least one day in a problem that is eit

> And finally, the take-home projects, I think they are the worse in comparison, you are expected to work for free for at least one day in a problem that is either very basic or too complicated One of the solutions my team has come across for this (also mentioned in previous HN threads) is to pay the interviewee for a day's work or give them an Amazon gift card for an equivalent amount. And we aren't looking for a perfectly crafted solution. We're just trying to get a handle on their general coding style, maintainability, coherence from variable naming and/or comments, DRY, whether they bother with edge cases in their solution, robustness/anticipate other types of errors or bugs that may pop up, etc.