I'm not a true senior (<5YOE) but I refused to do take home assignments. It's too open ended and there's really no way to tell exactly what will please the hiri

I'm not a true senior (<5YOE) but I refused to do take home assignments. It's too open ended and there's really no way to tell exactly what will please the hiring manager. Do you simply try to rush through the code to make it work within the allotted time limit? Do you put more effort into the design and structure of the code to make it production ready? What do you do when making the code nice and the 4 hours are up? Do you stop and turn in an incomplete assignment or do you put in more hours of work? Even if by chance, you killed it and built awesome code in the 4 hours, there's no guarantee that the hiring manager will like the patterns. I'm all of my online interviews I have never once received specific feedback on what I "failed" to do "right". So no, I will not waste my time on take home tests unless I get paid for it. As much as I also dislike algorithms, I can at least research what I did wrong and patch up that weakness. Can't really do that with take home assignments because there are too many variables.