A friend of mine is currently looking for .NET developer job in Switzerland. Looks like everyone there is doing a one day of on-site interviews with HR, technical tests/pear programming and meeting managers.
They had an online test to take that I had to pass in order to actually have an interview (or more, I don't know how it worked with them).
Anyway, the task they sent me was estimated to take 8 hours of work and couldn't be paused.
I was on vacation, I didn't want to bother so I just declined.
Once I was given a task to create some validation code for given criteria and integrate it in the given project.
They then invited me to an in person interview. At one point, I had to pair program with one of their developers and what I saw kind of shocked me. They integrated my code from the interview into their production code and their developer had an issue with it and asked me to help getting it working and write a couple of extra tests. So I did and they seemed very happy.
I didn't get the job though. They said I am not a "cultural fit".
I asked them if they actually used my code and if so they would have to pay me for the whole day, but they never responded afterwards.
I decided it wouldn't be worth to legally pursue, but since then I decided to not do any pair programming or coding tests.
I aced it, they were more than pleased, yet in the end they did not hire me as they said that they are actually closing the position because of the market downturn. At least they gave me a 50€ amazon gift card..
That's a codeword to cover racism, sexism, and/or ageism.
They solicit a huge amount of applications but very rarely hire people who make it beyond a year.
Although I'm on the Java side, I've yet to see a leetcode interview in CH, maybe I got lucky so far, but most of the interviews I had before were completely reasonable, maybe even too easy. The one that I failed miserably was an architecture discussion, in which I got an empty paper with a pen, and was expected to come up with the design of their existing system (I was allowed to ask questions). But even from that I learned so much, so no hard feelings. I will know much better what to do next time :)