I see this complaint a lot, but 10 hours is crazy - I've been involved in setting, reviewing the results for, and doing such tests for many years and the longes

I see this complaint a lot, but 10 hours is crazy - I've been involved in setting, reviewing the results for, and doing such tests for many years and the longest I've ever expected anyone to take is 2 hours, which is more than enough to demonstrate whether you have at least basic capabilities as a programmer. As it is in the "real world" my biggest problem with other devs is for them to spend days on a story, then finally put up a PR that shows they really didn't understand the requirements well or make any attempt to clarify them. It's actually pretty rare I'd ever expect a dev to be able to take a story away and put anything like 10 hours time into without needing to discuss it first, so why would I expect that for a take home test?