Whenever they ask me to do a take-home I make a mention that I have about 150k lines of code on GitHub; this is usually ignored. Now, I somewhat understand why larger companies just "follow procedure, even if it doesn't strictly makes much sense" for various reasons, but what baffles me is that even a lot of smaller companies do this; which seems odd since a lot of places I interviewed at are kinda desperate for developers, and often can't match the salaries of larger companies either.

The exception is my current position (only started last week): "oh yeah, we looked at your GitHub already and it's actually similar to the take-home anyway, so little point in that". Instead, they prepared an "alternative" interview where they posed some scenarios with "what would you do? How would you handle this?", which was intended to test both some technical skills, but also social/attitude things. I wrote down some answers, which took me about 30 minutes, and then we discussed them, taking a further 30-45 minutes.

The questions were a bit clunky because they were looking for someone ASAP and there was only 2 days between the first and second interview, but I felt that was a much better approach for the company as well, because they got a lot more information this way: they could already verify basic coding skills themselves, and this way they got a new chunk of information they wouldn't have had otherwise.