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If the assignment really only takes 30 minutes, why can't it be a live call if the candidate wants?

whether you like it or not, take home assignments just select for the people who can spend the most time on take home assignments.

Which means people like me who have a current job and a family and can't afford to spend several hours on a coding test to make sure they're above and beyond the competition either won't apply, or will send in results that will be much often worse than the competition because we actually only spent 30 minutes on it.

Are there alternatives to the "take home exercise"?

I've had several bad experiences with those where I waste dozens of hours of my own time only to be rejected or have to decline the offer shortly afterwards.

So now I pretty much don't apply anywhere that uses take home projects in the interview process.

They claim remote, however they really mean HYBRID.

Their application states:

A remote location, in most cases, is defined as living 50 miles or more from an office location.

It kind of seems disingenuous to claim "Remote in United States" but really mean "within 50 miles of Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle"