At the last interview I did, I was not given a take-home test. Instead, I was sat down with someone to do a pair-programming exercise where the objective was, "Given this collection of unit tests and this mess of a class, refactor it into something more maintainable." The class was in Python.
I quickly identified what the class did. It represented the relationship between a user and their role-based access, and the capabilities of that access, to an unidentified system. Refactoring consisted of identifying every method that had a real-world impact according to the unit tests, throwing everything else away, and then abstracting out the relationship between a role and its capabilities.
Funny thing about the roles: they were static. So I moved the role and capabilities into a table at the top, commented it to say "If you want to add a new role or capability, here is where you do it," and wrote a single function outside the class to represent the role/capability lookup.
The last interview of the cycle was a code review. They were mostly shocked that I had written a function instead of a class to represent the role/capability relationship. I pointed out that the function could be scoped at the module level, that in Python modules were themselves objects, and that this was a simple, static, binary relationship: role:[capability]. That was it.
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
Indeed it was. A class definition and so forth might have satisfied some arbitrary sense of encapsulation, but it was also clutter. Until and unless they needed a more dynamic system for describing their RBAC, mine was the clearest variant possible. And they agreed.
One asked, "What would you have done differently?"
"If I'd had my own environment, I wouldn't have been struggling with an unfamiliar editor and a QWERTY keyboard. I could have gone a lot faster then." The lack of a Dvorak option was a serious struggle. And while that may sound facetious, it does point to something more important: how would this interview cycle have handled someone with a disability?