I don't give take-home test tasks. I believe this is a waste of time for the company because it gives pretty much no useful information. A well written solution

I don't give take-home test tasks. I believe this is a waste of time for the company because it gives pretty much no useful information. A well written solution says nothing -- it could even potentially have been outsourced to somebody else. It also causes the candidate to waste as much time as possible because the candidate will feel pressed to spend every bit of time to further polish the solution. I think if I was to refuse take-home task this would be the exact official reason: Because I believe take-home tasks are unfair and incentivise candidates to waste as much time as possible for no benefit for the company. Instead, I do pair programming session debugging a piece of code and unit tests. It is not about the solution, it is about getting to know the candidate as he/she is working on a task.