My approach for take-home work is to offer to pair on it with the hiring manager or one of my future team-mates. This way it's mutual and I see how it'll be to

My approach for take-home work is to offer to pair on it with the hiring manager or one of my future team-mates. This way it's mutual and I see how it'll be to work with that person as well. If that seems like a ridiculous waste of time for one of their employees, well...