But even beyond that, it's so dumb to re-demonstrate coding chops to every single employer, especially when I have no idea what my chances are to begin with. Are you interviewing 100 candidates, or 2? Go look at my GitHub.
Got failed for a number of the most trivial reasons - it didn't meet PEP 8 (it was two white space errors, as I didn't have pep installed on my home laptop, so I missed them).
A load of stuff about not mocking tests (setting up that would have doubled the scope of the project). The spec and said if you don't have time, then describe what you would have added in terms of tests - which I did). I did provide the most difficult to implement integration test to prove the system worked.
There was a complaint providing an HTML webpage rather than a JSON endpoint (the spec described it as a "page" and said not to bother with styling - so implied that it was HTML). Plus a couple of other equally ridiculous complains.
Don't waste your time with takehome tests without speaking to someone in engineering first. Sennder is the company if anyone else wants to avoid, I think we should be naming and shaming such companies.