Spot on. I think there's a major disconnect in candidates wanting to be treated respectfully and companies that offer take homes I have a suspicion that compa

Spot on. I think there's a major disconnect in candidates wanting to be treated respectfully and companies that offer take homes I have a suspicion that companies that offer take homes expect the candidate to cheat in some way or the other and begin with assuming the worst. ... or they are simply going off the data that they have. I think majority of the candidates cheat by simply severely under-reporting the time it took for them to complete the assignment. 99% of the take home offers I receive are "our candidates typically take 2 hours to complete this assignment". These are not tests for basic coding proficiency. These are tests to check if you can build a full stack application - backend AND frontend including a README, tests and majority of candidates are typically taking 2 hours to complete. I can get a GraphQL/Express server up and running from a frequently used template I built, in 90 minutes will full support for Query, Mutation and Subscription. Create new users, tasks, updates, votes? Check Update users, tasks, updates, votes? Check Get realtime notification of changes to users, tasks, updates, votes? Check Apparently there are others who can not only do this but also implement a react frontend that puts the UI support for these as well in just 30 minutes more. Either candidates are reusing templates they have built in previous projects and not reporting the time it took them to build the template when they report the time Or, they are grossly under-reporting the time it took for them to complete the assignment. We are doing this to ourselves. We should not deflect the blame. If we feed garbage data to companies and then companies base their decisions off that, it's absolutely unfair to blame companies for not being realistic