The problem with take home interviews as I see it is that it costs the candidate X time and the company roughly 0 time. This incentives companies to give them t

The problem with take home interviews as I see it is that it costs the candidate X time and the company roughly 0 time. This incentives companies to give them to anyone and everyone. So you may be considered a marginal candidate who has little chance of passing unless you prove to be an utter genius in the take home. With in person interviews you'd just get rejected but with a take home they have nothing to lose by giving it to you. So it's a system that can work when few companies do it but utterly implodes at scale.