What realistically is a good alternative take-home assignments?

Everyone in this sub seems to absolutely hate take-home assignments. I used to find it stupid as well until I was involved in a hiring process a few months back.

We were hiring for a junior to mid level DS position, it only took a couple of days to gather half a thousand applications. (It’s absolutely insane, maybe due to the job being remote) Even after filtering out those with quantitative degrees or relevant experience, we still had to deal …

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