The interview needs to assess skills that will be used in the job. While I can appreciate the spirit of the homework assignment, our role requires client-facing

The interview needs to assess skills that will be used in the job. While I can appreciate the spirit of the homework assignment, our role requires client-facing capabilities. With that comes the necessity of being able to answer questions on-the-spot. Sometimes we have meetings with C-level executives with whom we can only get time once every month or every six weeks, and if something happens to come up in one of those meetings, "I'll get back to you in four hours" is rarely an acceptable answer. I think what would really help transform the hiring process is to assess skills that would be required on the job. I think that was the spirit of the original submission here, but I just wanted to explicitly state that I don't think homework is the solution to remedying the current state of hiring in all cases insofar as actually assessing the skills that would be required on the job.