> There are no downsides to this There are, otherwise everyone would be doing that Just a few off the top of my head: 1. Can't hire people who are already

> There are no downsides to this There are, otherwise everyone would be doing that Just a few off the top of my head: 1. Can't hire people who are already employed (few people would be willing to quit or take multiple days off for a potential job) 2. Burden on existing employees to find stuff for potential hires to do, set up equipment for them etc 3. Huge amount of time is wasted for every rejection 4. Can't possibly have the time to let every applicant do this 5. To narrow down the applicants, you have to....interview them anyway