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Let me start with an open question to everyone reading the text: What would be the alternative?
How can you get to know what someone's really able to do?

I can't comment on processes I'm directly involved in. But just to give you some hope, I'll just say that it is possible to apply DevOps / kanban styles of reasoning to this, to the point of a single day process from initial contact to structured interview to hire with very, very minimal cost of time to the candidate within that day.

Haven't personally seen ways to deal with the time zone thing, but I've heard rumors of good things in that area too.

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Jens Nistler

Would love to hear details about streamlined application processes.

As this post is quite old yet, we've since heavily revamped and automated our process and test.
The application test is now using a scaffold and is hard limited to 2 1/2 hours.