Paying shows you have skin in the game, value the candidates time, and you are not just handing out a ton of take home projects to every one who applied. I am s

Paying shows you have skin in the game, value the candidates time, and you are not just handing out a ton of take home projects to every one who applied. I am sure some companies have the money to do so, but generally I think that is not the norm. Off topic/curious: Is the take home project expected to be honor system 'closed book/closed internet'?