I mean, sure, that's fine. But if you discount the take-home portion - four hours - everything else would still have taken time, because I had to spend time on

I mean, sure, that's fine. But if you discount the take-home portion - four hours - everything else would still have taken time, because I had to spend time on the phone with HR for the initial screen, and I had to go in for an interview afterwards anyway, and ain't nobody going to pay you for the privilege of interviewing. And if I'm going to spend time displaying my abilities, doing it quietly at home on my own time is vastly better than in a shitty meeting room with two people breathing down my fucking neck. Do take-homes suck, and unfairly privilege people with more free time? Yes. Are they slightly better than the other asinine bullshit interviewers love to throw at candidates? Fucking absolutely.