Live coding session? Biased against people who don't perform well under pressure. No, it's biased against people who perform perfectly well (sometimes exceptio

Live coding session? Biased against people who don't perform well under pressure. No, it's biased against people who perform perfectly well (sometimes exceptionally well) under real, actual pressure. But who do not take kindly to the bullshit / theatrical pressure typical of the standard interview context, these days. And to companies that just can't tell the difference (or are under the delusion that performance in the latter category is in some way predictive of performance in the former). Take home project? It's too much work to do for free. It's more that the companies simply abuse the process in various callous and careless ways -- either by assigning projects with inadequate specification and/or unknown goalposts (or plainly unrealistic expectations of the actual time required, given these ambiguities); or simply assigning scores of these assignments (often automatically to every candidate who applies) when in fact they have no intention of even looking at the vast majority of the submissions. Easily ameliorated by simply paying people for their time.