Problem with take home test is that it’s asymmetric time commitment - candidate spends time but company does not have to. You can send take home test to 100 peo

Problem with take home test is that it’s asymmetric time commitment - candidate spends time but company does not have to. You can send take home test to 100 people competing for 1 open position because take home takes candidate 4 hours to do but only 10 minutes to check by company engineer (or even recruiter or automated tool). Easy to waste candidate time. With in person interview time commitment is the same for both company and engineer so no sane company will waste candidates time (at least on purpose). Feels much more fair.