I absolutely hate any homework a firm wants to impose on me. I’m usually juggling multiple interviews and don’t have time for that (especially when they’ll just ghost you at the end).

But I get it. It’s so expensive for everyone involved if you hire the wrong person and need to correct it. Asking a candidate to put more work up front seems reasonable when the offer can easily be worth $250k or more for what is essentially a day of zoom calls.

What’s a better way? Hire as a contractor and convert to full time after 6mo of performance evals? That’s also problematic.