Even more infuriating are interviews that expect you to complete a complicated 'homework assignment' that is essentially the company trying to get free coding w

Even more infuriating are interviews that expect you to complete a complicated 'homework assignment' that is essentially the company trying to get free coding work from its applicants. I once interviewed where they gave me a big assignment to complete. I must have spent about 8 hours on it. Since I wanted them to see my thought process along with code examples; I gave them something that was about half pseudo-code and half real working code. The hiring manager said they couldn't accept it until I had converted all the pseudo code into working code as well, along with a set of tests that exercised the code. I estimated that the assignment would take me an additional 20 hours or so to complete. I told them that I had spent enough time working for free and if they wanted to pay me for the work I was doing, I would be happy to complete it. They declined, which told me all I needed to know about the company.