My company (GoCardless) does pretty much this except: 1) There is first a very short phone chat with one of our recruiters to see what sort of role within our

My company (GoCardless) does pretty much this except: 1) There is first a very short phone chat with one of our recruiters to see what sort of role within our team you're interested in, let you ask questions, and to make sure you're clear on the scope of the take home challenge. 2) For the first technical interview, we have you talk through your approach to the take home challenge. Not everyone has publicly available code that they can walk through and not everyone's publicly-available projects are good for a discussion with any given one of our engineers. The pair programming interview is also on a challenge that we've standardised and calibrated with the team.