After you've been burned by these tests once or twice, you realize only the dumbest of the dumb would even consider taking such tests. Employers are so disrespe

After you've been burned by these tests once or twice, you realize only the dumbest of the dumb would even consider taking such tests. Employers are so disrespectful, most times they won't even look at your submission. Buckets of money my ass. This is free work that often doesn't even get you an in-person interview. Companies that use these tests are really optimizing for the worst engineers, the most desperate, and the ones with the least common business sense and respect for their own time. If these companies could at least be trusted to even consider all submissions, maybe then it might be worth it, but having to do dozens of these tests just to get a regular interview (because no hiring process hires simply off one of these tests) is beyond ridiculous. If a company wants actual work done, they should pay for it. That's the only way to make sure the exchange is fair considering how untrustworthy and uncaring companies are these days. Writing code for a few hours or a few days just to find out the company's not even interested in reading it, is absolutely the stupidest thing I've ever done in my career, a career that has not been a stranger to stupid things at all. In the future, I will use the idea of this type of test to weed out all the people who do not have enough self respect to say no. That's the only proper use of this type of testing.