Hey, Andrew here, thanks for the feedback!

Our take home assessment isn’t always required, but it is assigned to candidates whose applications would benefit from additional demonstration of skills. Most candidates say they can complete it within an hour, and due to the volume, we’re unable to provide individual feedback to each applicant at the assessment stage.

Does that come before or after any reasonable human contact through the course of a respectful process?

A 2 hour take-home as 1 step of a fair hiring process isn't too bad.

But you applying and then automatically getting a homework assignment would feel pretty crappy.

Before speaking to anyone, unfortunately.

Thanks for the heads up.

Seems pretty.... uncanny for them to do that :D