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When you got hired as an interviewer, did they make you interview a couple of people at home before a phone screening? You know, to check out your interviewing skills and to see if you're good or not.

Also, do you do this with your doctors and lawyers too? Give them homework to see if they are worth the money?

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As I stated, my take-home tests are post-phone screen. The idea of hiring a programmer without seeing non-trivial code is stupid. If a dev has a body of publicly-available work IMO a take-home test might not be necessary, but it depends on the nature of those works.

For doctors and lawyers there are known sources of publicly-available information regarding their history, background, cases, etc. and the referral system is more formalized than for developers.

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