The industry consensus is that the take-home is dead. Leopard.fyi surveyed 850+ engineering orgs and found leaders calling standalone take-homes "weak signal." The sentiment on X is even blunter: every take-home is flawless now, because Claude wrote all of them. We think the consensus is wrong about what died. The take-home was always a black box. Before Claude, before Copilot, before any of this. A candidate took a problem home, worked on it in private, and sent back a zip file. You graded the output. That was the entire signal.