I don’t know, I’m single, in my 30s and there is just no way in hell I’m taking a 4 hour take home assessment. I guess my only exception to this would be if was a job & company I had always dreamed of working at ever since I was a child (extremely unlikely). If I did take a 4 hour assessment and got the job, I would require an additional sum to my signing bonus for the time taken on the initial assessment (something like 1-5k depending on the role/industry/negotiating power I have).

A four hour assessment is just absurd. When I’m job searching (I’ve been fortunate to only have to do this a few times in my lifetime, and am in a position to be very selective in the opportunities I pursue), I’d more or less be open to a quick 1hr take home assessment, but nothing more.

In my experience companies typically take one of two paths when engagement with a potential candidate: a 1ish hour take-home assessment or a 1ish hour interview with a recruiter where they typically ask a number of basic job-relevant basic questions - IMO both methods just serve as a way to weed out the people who liter their resumes with buzzwords one line and actually are not qualified for the position at all.