What are your boundaries when it comes to take-home assessments during the interview/screening process? I have mixed feelings about them. Are you willing to do any and everything to get to the next step in the hiring process, or do you feel like the assignments are akin to working for free?

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Yup ^ If I need a job, I’m doing whatever I need to get the job.

Honestly, I think it depends on the role. I’m okay with short, relevant tasks that showcase my skills, but when it starts feeling like actual unpaid work, especially with no feedback, it’s a no for me. My time’s valuable too!

As a software engineer I like it better than live coding interviews. It allows me to think naturally and solve a problem more comprehensively on my own time rather than under pressure and with irrelevant problems to my day-to-day (algorithms and data structures) that I can just look up should they come up in reality

I'm not a huge fan of them. I don't necessarily think it's asking for free work, but it feels excessive at times. I really need a job, though, so unless the assessment is completely ridiculous, I'll just suck it up and do it.

If it's a short written questionnaire to assess my understanding of the job responsibilities, I'm okay with that in the initial round. Anything more than that early in the process is, as we say down here, "too much sugar for a dime." If it at the final stage and they need a final tie-breaker, I'm willing to give them 30 minutes at their site to solve a problem or write a code so they can judge my abilities. I would not agree to a detailed, take-home project that could require hours of work. That is unreasonable and smacks of being a power play on their part to see how much they can get out of the employee for nothing.

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