I can't speak for other companies, but the point at which candidates do the programming task is after they've come in and met 3 or 4 of us. It would be really a

I can't speak for other companies, but the point at which candidates do the programming task is after they've come in and met 3 or 4 of us. It would be really awkward in my opinion to then not have them back after they've completed it. By that point, we really want to have them in and we hope they do really well. We have 4-5 engineers in the code review for 1-2 hours. That time more than matches the candidate's commitment, which I think is equitable.