> As a hiring manager, I’ve given homework assignments to weed out candidates from the pack but I always kept it reasonable, just a few hours in length. "Just"

> As a hiring manager, I’ve given homework assignments to weed out candidates from the pack but I always kept it reasonable, just a few hours in length. "Just" a few hours has always, always been an underestimation when I've tried these. I've been burned a handful of times now; both from my time and from my belief that it would amount to something. I'm reminded of one instance where follow up emails kept coming after submission: "Add in this now." "Okay, now this." "Handle this." I consider myself an average engineer. I'm not interested in increasing my sample size to try and average out variance any longer. I'm looking outside to one of the first sunny, warm days we've had here in months. I can't think of anything more I'd rather not do than some arbitrary company hiring project. I simply pass on these now and politely pull out from consideration.