Just to provide another perspective... We have a take home test. It is an obviously fake problem, but we review it to the grade we would for our production cod

Just to provide another perspective... We have a take home test. It is an obviously fake problem, but we review it to the grade we would for our production code. We don't find that candidates turn down taking the test - it's capped at 3 hours so that it can't take up lots of time. We do find that we have a low pass rate, and even among candidates with 10+ years experience, we still find candidates who write code that is just not good, and who haven't read the spec. I'm not at all suggesting that you might be in this category, and if you can find jobs you want that don't require tests that's great. However, there are people with plenty of experience, who can architect things brilliantly, and who can't write a ~300 line program in Python in a way that satisfies a spec or in a way that anyone would be able to maintain. That's important for many companies, and so I think tests can be one useful part of an interviewing process.