The problem for me is not that I am being asked to do take home work - the issue is that I do not know how engaged the employer is. I have done the work and be

The problem for me is not that I am being asked to do take home work - the issue is that I do not know how engaged the employer is. I have done the work and been ghosted. Hell - I have done the work and received an offer but no one ever talked about my solution. I also have had the other end of the spectrum- interviews that ask me to correct production code - because they can not solve it. Maybe the answer is to pay me for my time at a consulting rate.