> present interviewees with a small take-home case study based on a real on-the-job problem
In my experience these are terrible. It becomes an arms race, what the company intended to become a 5 hour take home assignment becomes a 20 hour assignment because everyone else that's doing the take home assignment is also spending 20 hours. Take homes are a trap.
Personally, I like the idea of objective based take homes rather than time based. Then just have them check everything in on git so you can see how they work.
In my experience these are terrible. It becomes an arms race, what the company intended to become a 5 hour take home assignment becomes a 20 hour assignment because everyone else that's doing the take home assignment is also spending 20 hours. Take homes are a trap.