Comment by jakebasile

Your claim that a take-home test is "lower stress" is undercut by the fact that you time your interviewees on their homework. Why do you think it is important to gauge how fast a person might be able to solve your toy problem, and why do you expect your candidates to dedicate 6-12 hours (unpaid) of continuous time to your company before you've even met them in person in most cases? Did you consider that this might inherently discriminate against those with significant time constraints in addition to their current job, biasing your results to new grads and people without hobbies and/or families?