companies have tried many different techniques and this is currently working the best. Is it, now? The best thing you can say about is probably "it seems to k

companies have tried many different techniques and this is currently working the best. Is it, now? The best thing you can say about is probably "it seems to kind of, sort of work" -- at the cost of burning through a whole lot of candidates, and their presumably worthless time. no top notch engineer is going to do a 8 hour take home test for every interview Yup, take-homes suck, also. But that doesn't mean that complementOf(8-hour-take-home) is the right answer, either.