> No matter what bs the recruiter trys to tell you, take home assignments are cheap ways to evaluate and screen out candidates. You spend X hours finishing the

> No matter what bs the recruiter trys to tell you, take home assignments are cheap ways to evaluate and screen out candidates. You spend X hours finishing the assignment, they spend 30 minutes or less judging it, pretty disrespectful if you ask me. Or less... Slightly off topic but a tip to companies that give these tests who might be reading. If you must give a technical assessment I'm a fan of giving the candidate unit tests and asking them to write code that passes. Then you have a slightly different unit test on your end. Same algorithm but different input values so they can't just cheat and write code that just echo's the expected results. If the unit tests pass the candidate passes. If the unit test partially fails on a small number of the unknown values it's not an immediate fail for the candidate. I'll usually look at the code for 10 minutes and see why it failed.