Interviews, Too Many Loops?
It feels like there are surprisingly many loops to jump through to get a CS job, even with experience. In my previous career (finance), at most you got a test in addition to the interview. In CS nowadays you have to know all technologies, be a great leetcode solver, and have time/energy to drop everything and do a fullstack project in 2 days. Then most of the time you end up working on other stuff than what was tested on in a much small scope. I spend much more energy job interview prepping than I do at my actual job.
Will it get worse?
Just don't do the ones that ask you to do homework, it's relatively rare anyways, and in my experience it's a sign they're not totally serious.
If the homework assignment will take more than half an hour don't waste your time.