Please stop the coding challenges

I'm fine with tests, but only if companies pay a standard fee (say, $100) for a dev's time. If a company doesn't respect your time during the interview process, it probably won't while you're on the job.

This is such an out-of-touch and ridiculous thing to say

I think you a missed a 0 there.

$100 is insultingly low for a 4 hour assignment.

And why is that? Do you not agree that time is our most valuable asset?

Interviewing is a time investment for both sides. Should the company charge you to evaluate your skills?

Is that not literally LeetCode Premium?

When the interviewee is asked to complete an assignment, they have to invest substantially more time than their counterpart.

Agree, IMO even interviews should be compensated. Most software companies want to schedule 3-4 interviews each 2 hrs long so they should minimally compensate 1 day pay.

If we assume 15 days off that leaves roughly 245 workdays per year and with a salary of $200k that would be close to $800.

A fair amount of compensation to spend half a weekend on a project would be $400.

If someone gives me a take-home assignment that I spend 4 hours on, there is no commitment of time on their side. They may decide to not even look at the results. They may spend five minutes on it.

That's exactly my problem with take-home code challenges. If I go to an interview, and they waste my time, they have to waste their own. But with a take-home assignment, they can waste my time without wasting their own. That may lead them to be more wasteful of my time.

If that’s the case - sure. But that’s not inherent to code challenges. I evaluate results of challenges at work, they require 2-3 hours of candidate time and it rarely takes less than half of that time to fully evaluate and form a recommendation.