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"RULE #1 — Give them the weekend to solve the problem."
I won't say this is a bad rule, I'll just say that you should be flexible.
I declined to participate in an exercise similar to this while looking for a job this summer. The task was pretty complex, complex enough that I knew it was going to take a significant fraction of my weekend, but doable.
I live in Colorado and if you think I'm going to spend the weekend working on a job offer instead of heading out for the activities I want to do, you may be surprised to get my email saying no thank you.
tl;dr some people don't wanna do your interview on their weekend so be flexible.
I see this recommended time to time and I just don't understand it. My mother doesn't understand even the first part of how computers work. If she says she can't find her file, and you ask here where she saved it, she'l tell you, "In excel", every fucking time. Linux is great but how often does a package fail to update and I spend 3 minutes untangling something? Pretty often. Give it to my mom and it just went form 3 minutes to now I have to go over to her damn house and listen to her fucking complain and fix her shit. She has an ipad and a kindle and she loves them and she can't break them no matter how hard she tries (and if she does she goes to the damn apple store, fuck)