Crazy Take-homes For Roles That Just Require Batch Ingestion?

This is a bit of a rant but has anyone been interviewing recently and noticed this trend? I've interviewed with quite a few startups recently and almost all of them now require some type of take-home or system design round that is either decently complex and/or just very unclear while also almost entirely lacking in business/domain context that gets thrown at you as "tough luck, figure it out." And none of them are ever truly solvable in the small timeframe you're provided. As a rule the companies doing this are almost always some kind of batch ingest and transform with dagster/airflow/dbt shop. Am I being a diva or is the hiring process for DEs absolutely stupid right now?

I should also mention that some of the best work experiences and roles where I’ve had the most success have been ones with the simplest coding assessments as well as mostly conversational interviews. I don’t quite understand why so many companies choose to waste their own as well as candidates’ time for very little in terms of hiring signal improvement.

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Examples:

- had a company ask me how to handle late arriving data in a pyspark streaming pipeline and when I asked about it they said they actually had no internal use case for streaming data and just used dbt for almost everything.

- had a company ask me to system design on a whiteboard a URL shortener web application (told them I had no experience with web applications) for a role doing hourly batch ingestion with Dagster

- had a company ask me to design a SEO scoring and content prioritization algorithm (I have no SEO background) while giving me zero context on what fields/metrics they care about