> In short, to insist on take-home tasks in this market is to give up on your strongest candidates. This assertion makes absolutely no sense at all. Not being

> In short, to insist on take-home tasks in this market is to give up on your strongest candidates. This assertion makes absolutely no sense at all. Not being able to pass a simple fizzbuzz test doesn't mean the candidate is among the strongest there is. It just means that the candidate was either incapable of taking such a simple test or unwilling to provide any assurance that his alleged seniority made him a paper tiger. I've personally interviewed a candidate who had a double major in math and CS, had a PhD, declared having over 10years of experience as a senior software dev, and on the first interview he showed he didn't even knew how to include a third-party library on what he claimed to be his programming language of choice he used most of his career. That's the sort of stuff that take at home tests help weed out. If he took the test he wouldn't have wasted hours of his and our time.