Discussion with HR, then a take-home exercise. Frankly, I'm busy enough with my current job as it is without having to do unpaid labor for another company. While HR said they wanted to move quickly through the process, I didn't hear from them for over a week after I submitted their dumb homework assignment, which apparently wasn't good enough for them. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to put hours of effort into something that I'm not being paid for to try and get a role that would have been a minimum 15K pay cut for me. Take-home assignments are a giant waste of everyone's time. Get to know the candidate without forcing them to essentially work for free.