As someone who uses take-home assignments as part of my hiring process, I disagree that it is no effort at all. We still have to review submissions, get the cod

As someone who uses take-home assignments as part of my hiring process, I disagree that it is no effort at all. We still have to review submissions, get the code running (we usually let the candidate do the problem with the tools of their choice). You won't believe the number of candidates we receive with great looking CVs who struggle with a warm-up coding question like this: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/python-quest-1/problem https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/python-quest-1/problem If anything, completing the assignment and at having some working code already gets you above 90% of applicants.