FWIW, we ditched our take home tests a few years ago because candidates considered the ~8 hours required to complete it to be a waste of their time when they di

FWIW, we ditched our take home tests a few years ago because candidates considered the ~8 hours required to complete it to be a waste of their time when they didn't have to go through that hassle for other comparable offers. It was a neat little project but about half of the candidates either rejected the notion of doing that test or simply didn't send in the result, so we used to lose about 50%. Instead, we spend more time discussing real-world-oriented stuff, like what the parent is describing. Personally, I like to orient the discussion toward failures and recoveries if the candidate doesn't do it on their own. You learn so much about someone that way.