I spent three months working full time to get a job
My current company used a &quot;homework assignment&quot; and they bought a lot of my trust with it.<p>1. The &quot;assignment&quot; took me about 4 hours, which they expected and told me off the bat.
2. It involved mostly relevant code with 1-2 wrinkles that were not odd just not everyday sorts of things.<p>For the proceeding interview, I was able to sit with 3-4 engineers for 1-2 hours really just diving into details about my experience and their processes, etc.<p>So if I could offer advice it would be to find a &quot;homework problem&quot; your existing crew could build independently in 4 hours or so. As in you&#x27;ve actually had more than 1 team member attempt the request, and they did it in about 4 hours each.<p>This was actually an interview process I didn&#x27;t mind. I have 15-ish years of experience doing development. I can spare half a day for a prospect no problem. It was actually kind of fun.<p>4 hours seems to be a good &quot;sweet spot&quot;. You can ask something sufficiently technical and oriented to the daily work without being a bore. And when the interview comes around, you can make sure it&#x27;s not some ego-bound contest, more of a conversation.