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I agree, code puzzles suck. Our take-home assignment takes about five hours and we provide you with the skeleton project with a few schemas already there for yo

• y-c-o-m-b 5y ago
  No offense, but that still seems excessive. I'm guessing you still have another 1-2 hours minimum of interview time talking to the candidate afterwards too right? I would turn it down. My FAANG interview was a total of 5 hours and it included mostly behavioral questions and two 45-minute coding exercises, both relevant to the job. I think that was a decent compromise, but even that felt heavy. There are some exceptions. A 5 hour take-home project might be acceptable if you pay the candidate. For example DuckDuckGo paid me for their take home project, although it took far less than 5 hours to do. I appreciated that. Still, with the developer shortage, I'm far less inclined to deal with these silly experiments when there's a handful of other companies that have more efficient hiring processes I can apply to.