No, as i've started to reach staff engineer at my company i've been able to influence some of our hiring policy. I've vowed to make hiring policy that is a joy for our candidates. I find the an extremely simple take home project is enough to see meaningful details to have a conversation about and to be able to wave around to internal stakeholders that we've seen something material of theirs. I explicitly tell folks to please stop working after 2 hours very emphatically.
