> These blog posts that suggest asking candidates to spend a few hours working on a take-home problem is unreasonable are getting to be out of touch. On the co

> These blog posts that suggest asking candidates to spend a few hours working on a take-home problem is unreasonable are getting to be out of touch. On the contrary, it seems the growing sentiment regarding tech hiring is that the people involved in the process are out of touch. 1) Candidates aren’t ONLY doing YOUR take home. I know you think your test is super special, but a candidate will be doing half a dozen of these tests on top of resume updating and all the other tasks that come along with applying for a position. 2) The very act of testing in the first place is something that not many other professions do. Line cooks applying to Applebees aren’t asked to know molecular food theory and whiteboard a chemical reaction. Why should a SWE applying for a position maintaining a CRUD app be tested on graph theory?