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If you're going to ask me to do a project that takes n hours, either I'm going to reciprocate and require the same of you, or you're going to pay my consulting rate to do it.

I suspect every good candidate had the same approach. If you're getting people to do this for free, you're not getting very good applicants.

In this market, the people you're interviewing are far more desirable than you are.

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One of the best interviews I ever went on was a pair coding exercise. The interviewer asked me to come in for a couple hours, and we worked through a problem together. The "my time is your time" vibe was really nice. An interviewer wouldn't he able to scale that kind of interviewing technique unless they were upfront with candidates about what they'd he asked to do, and had a reasonable level of confidence that a candidate would have a reasonable shot at getting the job. I really liked it, and it demonstrated that the interviewer had thought about the interview in advance.

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