If you want a job, about the last thing you are going to want to say is that you were in a hurry (meaning "I didn't care about this job enough to pay proper attention to this"). This is going to be your calling card, so it has to look great! You make it appear as if you are penalizing people for going the extra mile to complete all the requirements.
And I’m in no position to expect candidates to treat a take-home code test like a real job. These are all experienced engineers that already have good jobs. They don’t need my job.
I 1000% prefer someone who didn’t spend much time on my code test but knows what they’re talking about, to someone who spent a bunch of time and is a bad engineer. The time constraint will be resolved when they quit their existing full time job.
